According to reports, the iranian revolutionary guard corps’ naval forces have seized a container ship belonging to israel in the persian gulf Iranian forces seized a container ship with links to israel in the persian gulf on saturday, as leaders in the middle east and beyond watched for a retaliatory strike by iran against israel. Members of iran’s islamic revolutionary guard corps (irgc) boarded the msc aries by helicopter in open waters and commandeered the cargo vessel with 25 crew members.
Iran’s revolutionary guards seized the container ship msc aries, with a crew of 25, in the strait of hormuz on april 13, days after tehran vowed to retaliate for a suspected israeli strike on.