DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — An oil tanker seized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRG) last week was released on Wednesday, the company managing the ship said, confirming all its crew were safe.

“Columbia Shipmanagement can confirm that its managed product tanker TALARA was released at approximately 4:42 a.m. local time on 19 November 2025 with its crew complement of 21 seafarers, all of whom are safe,” the group said in a statement to Agence France-Presse.

The IRG confirmed on Saturday that they had seized the oil tanker in the Gulf as it sailed away from a United Arab Emirates port, a day after security companies determined they were likely responsible.

“Yesterday morning at 7:30, after a judicial authority ordered the seizure of the cargo of an oil tanker with the trade name Talara and the flag of the Marshall Islands, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rapid reaction units of the naval forces monitored its movements and intercepted and seized it,” said the IRGC, the ideological arm of the Islamic republic’s military.

“The tanker was found to be in violation of the law by carrying unauthorized cargo,” the statement continued, adding it “was carrying 30,000 tons of petrochemical cargo and was heading to Singapore.”