2024-04-13 11:04:54
The Iran’s Revolutionary Guard captured a ship “associated” with Israel in the Persian Gulf this Saturdayamid tensions over the possible Iranian response to the Israeli attack against its consulate in Damascus, media from the Persian country reported.
“The Navy of the Revolutionary Guard seized a cargo ship associated with the Zionist regime (Israel),” reported the Tasnim agency, linked to that elite military body.
The captured ship It would be the ‘MSC ARIES’, with a Portuguese flag, and according to Tasnim, linked to the company ‘Zodiac Maritime’ Israeli owned.
Iranian media such as the SNN agency showed videos of soldiers descending from a helicopter and boarding a ship.
The ship, according to maritime portalsleft Khalifa, in the UAE, heading to Nhava Sheva, in India, and its last position received was yesterday in the same place where the collision took place.
Iran frequently captures oil tankers and cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, the last time on January 11 when a ship was boarded in the Sea of Oman and taken to Iranian waters.
The incident occurs amid strong tensions in the Middle East due to a possible attack by Iran against Israel in retaliation for the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1.
Six Syrians and seven members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed in that attack, including the leader of its Quds Forces branch for Syria and Lebanon, Brigadier General Mohamed Reza Zahedi.
Las Iranian authorities have repeatedly promised revenge for the attack against the diplomatic headquarters.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, considered yesterday that Iran’s eventual attack on Israel will come “sooner rather than later” and US media assured that the Iranian response was imminent.
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