Iranian state TV airs video of IRGC seizing vessel in Strait of Hormuz

Описание: Iranian state TV aired a video on Thursday purportedly showing armed soldiers boarding a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

The container ship seen in the video was one of two captured by Iran on Wednesday.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accused the MSC Francesca and the Liberia-flagged Epaminondas of operating without the necessary permits and tampering with their navigation systems.

The seizures came after the US detained an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean earlier this week, sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil.

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