Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries.
The Middle East had braced for potential Iranian retaliation over a suspected Israeli strike earlier this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people, including a senior Guard general who once commanded its expeditionary Quds Force.
The wider Israeli war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip is now 6 months old and is inflaming decades-old tensions across the whole region.
Iran’s state-run IRNA said a special forces unit of the Guard’s navy carried out the attack on the vessel, which other media in the country widely identified as the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship associated with London-based Zodiac Maritime.
Just a reminder that Israel committed an act of war when they illegally bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria.
Your title and the bit pasted in here leaves out that the ship is owned by an Israeli billionaire.
The very first sentence of what they pasted in it says that it is an Israeli-affiliated ship. That it’s owned by a billionaire really goes without saying.
As for the headline, it is the headline of the article, which is what is required in the community rules.
Aren’t you supposed to use the Headline from the article and not editorialize??
I didn’t editorialize it. I posted what the AP had at the time.
Second country to take meaningful action to stop genocide.
Oh great more terrorist attacks on civilization ships. Iran and their proxies are really determined to make sure the waters in that region remain unsafe for any civilians to use.
wait until you find out what Israel’s been up to the last 6 months
So you support an eye for an eye?
You support bombing embassies for no reason?
While I don’t condone it, harboring terrorists is hardly no reason. It’s a military target, which is more than can be said about taking more civilian hostages like Iran has done.
Embassies are never a military target no matter who is in them. If you’re going to call generals terrorists then it means it’s fair game for Iran to assassinate US generals. And Israel opened the can of worms, countries could bomb US embassies because the CIA is known to operate in them.
