Iran seized a Maersk Cargo ship in Dubai, Al Arabiya

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Maersk TigrisSaudi-owned Al Arabiya television said an Iranian “force” seized a U.S. cargo ship after opening fire on it in the Gulf on Tuesday and directed it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

A Pentagon spokesman said Iranian forces had boarded a Marshall Island-flagged vessel, the MV Maersk Tigris, in the Gulf. He said the boarding occurred after Iranian patrol boats fired shots across the vessel’s bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters.

The ship had no U.S. citizens aboard, the spokesman said, contradicting Al-Arabiya’s report which said there were 34 U.S. sailors on board. He said it was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz when the incident occurred.

There was no immediate word from Iranian officials.

Iran has in the past sometimes threatened to block the strait to advance its opposition to sanctions imposed over its nuclear program.

The channel is a narrow strip of water separating Oman and Iran. It connects the biggest Gulf oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

At its narrowest point, the strait is 33 km (21 miles) across and consists of 2-mile wide navigable channels for inbound and outbound shipping and a 2-mile-wide buffer zone.

REUTERS

Ya Libnan Editor’s note
Maersk Line is not an American company . It is a division of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate based in Copenhagen.

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14 responses to “Iran seized a Maersk Cargo ship in Dubai, Al Arabiya”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    someone’s loosing his nerves…

    1. Oh yes, its getting to crunch time.

    2. France is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic after a leaked UN report said victims as young as eight were raped in exchange for food and money.,,and no evidence isis are rapist…Westerners discredit them in order to kill them…of course non of people who will kill these rapist france armies..

      1. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        One thing is sure, Indonesians are mostly rapists.
        How old was your first wife zabada?

        1. zabada Avatar

          no news on that…it is your delusion..Indonesian even never invaded any countries in history..so no raped camp like Russian..France..Italians invaders.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Interesting for the numbers …. over 8 years ….
            “The subsequent Iraq War claimed the lives of more than 100,000 civilians between 2003 and 2011, according to the Iraq Body Count database.

            And in less than 5, ASSad’s War has done in twice as many, starved a lot of those to death, planted 10 million in other countries, and ruined more bathrooms.
            ASSad is winning in the numbers games.

          2. zabada Avatar

            Assad spend too much money to protect his dictatorship..that why dictatorship is unaccepted as a true politic in modern days…all money go to weaponry…no more calculated in his countries..if people are hungry..they will do anything to feed their mouth..Ask Lebanon to have their weapon industry it,s plant stronger economy and turned a country a stronger country.It is bad to create weapons to killing people…but is is worse if we are not struggle our self the the same level as they were.

          3. zabada Avatar

            I ve no idea how to stabilize Iraq,Syria and Yemen.I guess nobody be able to stabilize the three.Even civilization and modernization is not a guarantee to stabilize the region.Even so,it is only the way to stabilize a country.A lot of believe,theology,religion..a lot of differences,a lot of hatred among people,a lot of abuse of power on too greedy on that..,a lot crimes from inside and from out side.God know the best.

        2. safina Avatar

          we are Indonesian ….
          we never raping the other countries

          you loose your own mirror

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Looks like the Iranian war-ships didn’t go to ‘protect Iranian Shipping from pirates’ … they went to ask Somalis how to do it. They are so stupid, that if they see a name on a ship not written in Arabic, they think it’s USA.

    1. arzatna1 Avatar

      Perhaps the Marshall Islands convenience flag confused the Iranians, or may be Jamil el Sayyed ( close friend of Nasrallah) wanted to take his revenge against the Marshall Islands for canceling his nomination as their ambassador to UNESCO last year. You never know how the Persian mind thinks !

      1. Central Bankers Now Provoking War Everywhere To Cover Up The Economic Collapse – Episode 410..you tube…also..all wars are bankers war…you tube.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        We know the flags are just to avoid taxes … the ‘business conglomerate based in Copenhagen’ probably has Arabian investors in it.

    2. …تنظيم الدولة الاسلامية #داعش يقتحم قاعدة …Type on you tube.. America air base In ain assad,Iraq..attacked by isis..I guess most of 300 american armies are burnt out,died and ran away..but no English news so far..America Zionist thinks they are going to win..but they are not..American always dies for their master..the Jews.Zionist Jews and Israel…what a fool they were.

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