Iran seizes two Saudi fishing vessels in Gulf: Fars

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The Iranian coast guard has seized two Saudi fishing vessels after they entered Iran's territorial waters, a local coast guard official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "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 Fars news agency. Relations are tense between Shi'ite Muslim power Iran and Sunni Muslim-led Saudi Arabia, and seizures of vessels accused of straying into one another's waters occur a few times a year.

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