DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran will unload about $50

million worth of crude from a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker

seized last year, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on

Wednesday, in a tit-for-tat action against the United States.

Advantage Sweet is a Suezmax crude tanker that had been

chartered by U.S. firm Chevron ( CVX ) and was seized in April

2023 by Iran's army following an alleged collision with an

Iranian boat.

The unloading of the cargo follows a Tehran court order in

favour of Iranian patients of Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare

skin disease, who had filed a lawsuit against the "severe

physical and mental harm" caused by the non-provision of

Swedish-made medicine, which is said to be caused by U.S.

sanctions according to the lawsuit.

The report did not specify whether Iran's seizure of the

tanker's oil will contribute to the EB patients.

In August 2023, a cargo of Iranian oil was

unloaded

off the coast of Texas from the Suez Rajan, a Marshall

Islands-flagged tanker seized by the U.S.

This same tanker, under the name of St Nikolas, was

seized in the Gulf of Oman by Iran's Navy earlier this year

following a court order.