Tehran: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have seized an Israeli ship in the Strait of Hormuz, which has now been transferred to Iran. Two Pakistanis and several Indian nationals are also on board the ship.
The British news agency, citing the Iranian news agency IRNA, said that the Portuguese-flagged Israeli ship “MSC” Aries was seized by the Revolutionary Guards.
He said that a special helicopter of the Revolutionary Guards Naval Forces was landed on the ship and seized.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that Iran is doing piracy, so sanctions should be imposed on it.
Katz said Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime is a criminal regime that supports the crimes of Hamas and is now acting like pirates in violation of international law.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs said that I call on the European Union and other countries of the world to immediately declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization and impose sanctions on Iran.
The United States and its allies have previously expressed the view that Iran or its allies may soon launch a major missile or drone attack on Israel, and if it does, the war that has been going on in Gaza for the past 6 months may expand further. in the region.
Bloomberg said the target could be attacked with precision-guided missiles in the coming days.
However, the United States believes that such an attack could target military or government targets instead of the civilian population in Israel, and according to Israeli intelligence, it is not a question of if an attack will happen, but only a question of when it will happen. it happens.
It should be noted that Iran threatened to retaliate and attack Israel after Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus, the capital of Syria.
