FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin Iranian authorities have seized a bulk carrier accused of dumping oil and sludge into the Strait of Hormuz, state media reported on 31 August. Esmaeil Makizadeh, deputy head of the Ports and Maritime Department in southern Hormozgan province, told the official IRNA news agency that authorities deployed specialist and clean-up teams after images emerged showing an apparent oil discharge into the sea. RelatedNews Two Filipino seafarers dead in incident in the Strait of Hormuz US strikes Iranian vessels in “tanker for tanker” escalation var jnews_module_21381047_0_6a98270293ba9 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21381047","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"283,4346,1731,2759,2647","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_image_alt":"","ads_image_new_tab":"","google_publisher_id":"","google_slot_id":"","google_desktop":"au