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.
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