2024-04-14 11:08:07
Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Jake Sullivan, in a telephone conversation with the head of the Israeli National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, confirmed Washington’s unwavering support for the Jewish state.
“This morning I spoke with my Israeli counterpart, National Security Advisor Hanegbi, to discuss events in the Middle East. During the call, I reaffirmed the United States’ unwavering support for Israel‘s security,” Sullivan wrote on X (formerly Twitter), Day.Az reports. with reference to TASS.
On Saturday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant in a telephone conversation that Israel can count on the full support of the United States in defending against attacks from Iran and its allies in the region.
Earlier on Saturday, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces, seized the commercial ship MSC Aries in the Strait of Hormuz. The container ship MSC Aries is sailing under the flag of Portugal, according to the Associated Press. The London-based company Zodiac Maritime, which is part of the Zodiac Group of Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer, confirmed to TASS the connection with the seized ship. As follows from data from the MarineTraffic service, the container ship MSC Aries was heading from the Emirati port of Khalifa to the Indian Nava Sheva. The last time the ship transmitted data about its location was on the evening of April 12. Then it was located in the Persian Gulf near Dubai.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Iran of conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law after the seizure of a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and also called on the European Union to recognize the IRGC as a terrorist organization.