A sanctioned Iranian tanker carrying about 500,000 barrels of liquefied petroleum gas slipped past the U.S. naval blockade and delivered its cargo to China, according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which says it filmed the ship at a Malaysian anchorage along the way.
Tanker laden with Iranian LPG transiting the Gulf of Oman (Credit: ESA Copernicus & Marine Traffic) (ESA Copernicus & Marine Traffic)
The vessel, the SOGL (IMO 9208227), loaded Iranian LPG at Assaluyeh Port in late August and got past the blockade on Sept. 1, UANI told Fox News. The group says it chartered a supply boat and ran about 100 nautical miles out to the EOPL anchorage off Malaysia on Sept. 16, where it filmed the SOGL taking on fuel and services, before the tanker sailed north into the South China Sea and discharged at Xinzhou Port in China.
On Oct. 8, three weeks after UANI filmed it, the Treasury Department sanctioned it as one of 17 shadow fleet vessels, saying the Comoros-flagged tanker, owned by Marshall Islands-based Gravion Maritime Company, "has transported more than two million barrels of Iranian propane/butane since September 2025." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the action was "starving the tyrannical regime in Tehran of the money it uses to wage war in the region."
Since the blockade was reinstated in July, "only around nine small tankers carrying Iranian LPG have successfully passed the blockade li
