“Yesterday, the coast guard deployed in the country’s southern waters came to spot two vessels in Iran’s protected waters,” Qalandar Lashkari, commander of the Bushehr province coast guard, told the IRGC affiliated Fars news agency.
He said the two vessels were fishing illegally in Iranian waters under Saudi flags. The nine sailors of various nationalities on board were arrested, he said.
Fars news agency did not give a location for the incident, but the province of Bushehr stretches down Iran’s northern Persian Gulf coast and is the site of the only nuclear power station in the region.
In January, Saudi Arabia detained 21 Iranians on two commercial boats near al-Harqus island, 42 miles off the Saudi coast.
The Iranian regime has been meddling in Saudi affairs by fomenting unrest in that country, and Riyadh fears the Iranian regime nuclear work which is a cover for an atomic weapons program.
Source: News Agencies