Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday in the latest attack between the two countries.
The seizure followed a suspected Israeli strikethis month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people, including a senior Guard general.
Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip has inflamed decades-old tensions across the region.
With Iranian-backed forces like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthi rebels also involved in the fighting, any new attack in the Mideast threatens to escalate that conflict into a wider regional war.
Iran’s state-run IRNA said a special forces unit of the Guard’s navy carried out the attack on the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship associated with London-based Zodiac Maritime.
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@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
Considering the rise in tensions, what actions do you believe your own country should take if faced with a similar situation?
@9LJKVB92yrs2Y
They should work to ease the tensions diplomatically.
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