ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS

Iran’s top diplomat says that the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has accepted the idea of continuing to be sanctioned by the U.S. if it meant the restoration of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

Bruno Vincent/Getty Images(CNN) - Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million barrels of "smuggled fuel," state news agency Press TV said on Thursday. The semi-official Fars news agency said Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces ambushed the tanker, carrying 12 people on board, on Sunday. The IRGC have denied seizing any other tankers, Fars said. It is unclear whether the tanker seized Sunday was the same vessel as one that Iran claimed to have assisted earlier this week. The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.