Maritime analysts are identifying the grounded vessel as the Arista, a renamed ship tied to Iran that has been immobilized north of Hormuz Island since mid-March.The US Treasury says the Arista formerly sailed as the Panama-flagged Gauja, adopted a Comoros flag to hide its origin and is linked to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani and a Shamkhani family oil smuggling ring that profited from sanctioned Iranian and Russian crude.Iran is enforcing designated lanes and pressing for passage charges, a policy the US and Gulf states reject, and the immobilized
Arista is complicating navigation through a choke point and adding pressure to diplomatic talks in Doha.