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.
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.
it means I have to open the post and read the description, what’s next, read the source article and think by myself?! That looks incredibly tiring
How would I have known it was a billionaire Israeli ship if I hadn’t opened and read the article smart ass?
The posted headline here is editorialized…which is breaking rule 4 of this community.
Israel (in the article) v West (here)
Removed by mod
…or you could just update the title. That is allowed.