The Department of Justice is planning to reactivate maritime prize courts in an effort to make it easier to claim Iranian oil tankers as war prizes to help offset the cost of the war, according to a new report.

Utilizing prize courts would give the government a clearer path to legally claiming ships seized by the U.S. Navy in the course of its enforcement of a naval blockade of Iran as the government’s property.

That process would allow the government to sell oil or other cargo from the ships that violated the blockade, and the proceeds would be provided to the Treasury Department.

The plan was first reported by Bloomberg Law, citing three…

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