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.
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.