The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had seized a tanker "for carrying unauthorized cargo". The vessel, the Talara, was a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker transporting gasoil from Singapore to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Talara's Cyprus-based ship management company said it lost contact with the vessel on November 14 approximately 20 nautical miles off the coast of Khor Fakkan in the UAE.