Cargo Ship Seized by Iran Monitored by U.S. as Options Weighed
The U.S. weighed its options as a Navy destroyer and three patrol boats continued to monitor a cargo ship flying the flag of the Marshall Islands that was seized by Iranian naval forces, officials said. “We are in discussions now with the Marshall Islands to determine the best way forward,” Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters Wednesday. The ship, the MV Maersk Tigris, is anchored near Larak Island and the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, Warren said. Naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
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