Have you guys been following this story?
It keeps getting crazier and crazier.
There's a "shadow fleet" of at least 16 ships that were being tracked and suspected of attempting to avoid the embargo the US placed on Venezuela. However, this particular ship,
Bella 1, was supposedly an empty Iranian tanker headed to Venezuela when it turned back in mid-December to avoid the Navy blockade.
The Coast Guard then begin chasing the ship (Why the USCG, you ask(or at least I asked)? Because they can carry out law enforcement tasks where the US Navy cannot). The tanker then reportedly changed it's registration to Russia. It now goes by the name
Marinera. The USCG has chased it across the Atlantic and unsuccessfully attempted to board the ship several times.
The tanker is supposedly now in the North Atlantic and the Russian Navy sent a submarine and additional security/escort to the protect the ship as it sails toward a Russian port. A U.S. P-8 is now hunting the sub.
Now, this is just a wild guess, but maybe that Iranian tanker isn't empty...