MSC Aries, owned by Gortal Shipping Inc, which is affiliated with Zodiac Maritime, and chartered by MSC, was boarded by Iranian authorities by helicopter. The Israeli army reacted immediately, through its spokesperson Daniel Hagari: Iran “will suffer the consequences of its choice to further aggravate the situation” The MSC Aries built in 2020 and 366 m long left Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates on Friday to go to India.
But Tehran announced that the ship would be transferred to its territorial waters. British security firm Ambrey said it "observed still images showing at least three individuals quickly jumping from a helicopter onto what appeared to be a container ship" Israel Katz, Israel's foreign minister. “Ayatollah Khamenei's regime is a criminal regime that supports Hamas' crimes and is now carrying out a piracy operation in violation of international law,” said Israel Katz. ‘I call on the European Union and the free world to immediately declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization and sanction Iran now,’ he added.