Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard boarded the MSC Aries this Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz from a helicopter. The assault on the boat, which Iranian forces are taking to the country, occurs amid tension over Tehran's announced revenge for the murder of 13 people in an Israeli bombing against a consular building in Syria.
Israeli diplomacy has already reacted, urging the EU to “immediately declare the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization and sanction Iran” The Netherlands announced this Saturday the closure of its embassy in Tehran from this Sunday, April 14, "as a precaution" And the Pentagon revealed that the Pentagon has sent more warships and planes to the area, according to a defense official cited by the newspaper KLM, France's KLM Air. And the goal: “to strengthen deterrence efforts and increase the protection of the American forces,” according to the newspaper, citing an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The ship belongs to a subsidiary of Zodiac Maritime, one of the main international maritime companies and partially owned by Eyal Ofer, an Israeli businessman.