RISE GLORY

RISE GLORY is an Iran-flagged crude oil tanker also known by the alias SOLAN, with IMO number 9155808, a permanent vessel identifier that travels with the ship regardless of flag, name, or ownership changes. On 28 May 2026 OFAC added RISE GLORY to the SDN list under its counter-terrorism authority, specifically the Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) programme and Executive Order 13224, citing a link to the MEHDI GROUP. The designation was one of eight Iran-linked tanker actions taken by OFAC on the same date, continuing a pattern of hull-by-hull drainage of the compliant-tonnage pool serving Iran's crude export programme.

The SDGT designation under EO13224 is the more severe of the two Iran-related sanctions tracks: it is the counter-terrorism authority rather than the general Iran sanctions programme (ITSR), which means that any non-US person who knowingly facilitates a transaction with RISE GLORY risks exposure to secondary sanctions under the NDAA counter-terrorism provisions. In practice this makes the vessel commercially untouchable for mainstream European and Asian operators: no Western insurer, classification society, or port agent will service an SDGT-designated hull. The vessel is therefore effective only within the shadow-fleet ecosystem of non-Western-insured, flag-of-convenience tankers.

RISE GLORY's designation is part of OFAC's coordinated enforcement wave targeting both Iranian crude exports and Russian sanctions evasion infrastructure in a single action. It follows a broader pattern, established across 2025-26, of OFAC listing specific hulls rather than flag states or fleets, forcing Iran's crude logistics to continuously rotate through undesignated vessels.