Skipper, a tanker seized by US forces in international waters near Venezuela, was boarded and its roughly 1.1 million barrels of Venezuelan crude are being held by the US while the vessel is brought toward Galveston, Texas and the crew is to be released.US officials, including White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, say courts will decide whether the cargo can be confiscated; US intelligence links the ship, formerly Adisa, to a smuggling network tied to Viktor Artemov and to past Iranian shipments for the IRGC and Hezbollah.The operation, authorized in a federal warrant signed by Zia Faruqui and backed by the US Navy and praised by FBI director Kash Patel, drew denunciations from Nicolás Maduro, Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto and allies such as Iran, Cuba and Nicaragua, and prompted comments from Donald Trump about keeping the oil.