Commandos of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeliaffiliated container ship mostly manned by Indians near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel on Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries.
Seventeen Indian sailors are on board the ship, which has a crew of 25.
This has come even as the Middle East 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 there.
A special forces unit of the Guard's navy attacked the vessel, the Portuguese flagged MSC Aries, a 366 metres container ship associated with London-based Zodiac Maritime, Iran's state-run news agency IRNA said. The Portuguese-flagged ship is linked to Israeli billionaire according to Eyal Ofer, Reuters. Ofer (worth $24 billion according to Forbes) is a Monaco-based and was born in Israel.
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