Former Royal Marines hired to protect Iranian tankers

Jerry Frank - Wednesday 16 September 2009

EX-ROYAL Marines are being routinely deployed as anti-piracy forces onboard fully laden large Iranian oil tankers now under regular attack from heavily armed pirates off the Gulf of Aden.
Tanker operator NITC has had a dozen attempts on its very large crude tankers passing through the Gulf of Aden since October last year, with each VLCC carrying fu...

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