Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with West
Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have rappelled down onto a container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency acknowledged the seizure after a video seen by The Associated Press showed the commandos raiding the ship Saturday, an attack a Mideast defense official attributed to Iran amid wider tensions between Tehran and the West. The video showed the attack earlier reported by the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which described the vessel as being “seized by regional authorities” in the Gulf of Oman off the Emirati port city of Fujairah, without elaborating.