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.
Photo looks like a screenshot from MGS Phantom Pain.
Nice one. Those vicious, bloodthirsty ghouls should be resisted by any means necessary.
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.
That’s fair, but you probably should update the post if you are aware.
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)
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…or you could just update the title. That is allowed.
Second country to take meaningful action to stop genocide.
Are we talking about the same Iran?
Iran and Yemen.
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.
No, I don’t support any of the religious assclowns. I wish the US would stop funding all involved. BUT to say that this is eye for an eye is extremely disingenuous… both sides are not equal here, Israel has gone far beyond normal retaliation. Just look at the numbers, the displacement, and contempt on civilian aid. It’s all disgusting, but one side is clearly making it worse
Any purely civilian targeting should be condemned, regardless of their nationality.
I agree with that, but your comment history seems to disagree
Ah yes, my comment history calling out Hamas sympathizers spreading straight misinformation and lies.
Iran and their proxies taking civilian hostages should be condemned every time. Not praised like is happening right now.
Do you know that this post’s title has been editorialized? lol
Where are the posts praising civilians hostages? lol
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