{
  "id": 3573180,
  "title": "US Aims to Revive Civil War-Era Court to Claim Iran Oil as Prize",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/us-aims-to-revive-civil-war-era-court-to-claim-iran-oil-as-prize",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-26T19:07:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/us-aims-to-revive-civil-war-era-court-to-claim-iran-oil-as-prize"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Justice Department is preparing to activate a long-dormant maritime war court to streamline military capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes, according to three people familiar with the plans.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}