Tanzania: Zanzibar Denies Registering Iran Oil Tankers

Zanzibar — ZANZIBAR government has categorically dismissed as fabricated recent press reports that it had registered ten Iranian oil tankers in efforts to dodge international sanctions by carrying Tanzanian flags.

"These reports from the press including the international news agency Bloomberg, and the local newspaper 'The Citizen' are not true," Mr Hamad Masoud Hamad, the minister for communications and infrastructure read the statement in the House on Friday.

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