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US denies Iran ship seizure report
US denies Iran ship seizure report
American officials have denied media reports that a US cargo ship had been seized by the Iranian navy.The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV network had reported that a US vessel had been seized and taken to an Iranian port.However, the Pentagon spokesman said the vessel involved was flagged to the Marshall Islands and that no Americans were on board.
The MV Maersk Tigris was moving through the Straits of Hormuz, according to the Pentagon.
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Iran Claims to Have Seized U.S. Ship
U.S. says report is false.
The Iranian organ Farsnews claims that Iran has seized a U.S. ship. Thirty-four are on board, the outlet claims. Fars claims:
[quote888]The Iranian Navy has confiscated the American trade vessel with all its 34 crew for trespassing on Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.An Iranian warship is now taking the American vessel to Iran's Southern port city of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf.There has been no official confirmation of the seizure yet.[/quote888][/quote888]
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Re: US denies Iran ship seizure report
Some additonal info:
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WASHINGTON — Iran on Tuesday took control of a Marshall Islands-flagged ship and its crew of 34 people after accusing the ship of trespassing on its territorial waters, American defense officials said, and the United States Navy sent a destroyer toward the Persian Gulf in response.
A Pentagon official in Washington said that the commercial cargo ship, the Maersk Tigris, was intercepted by several patrol boats from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Tuesday while traveling through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf on what the official called “an internationally recognized maritime route.”
Iranian forces, the defense official said, contacted the vessel and directed its captain to divert farther into Iranian waters. When the captain initially declined, Iran fired shots across the ship’s bow, prompting the ship to comply.
Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, in Tehran in 2011.Yemen Crisis Looms as Kerry Meets With Iranian Counterpart on Nuclear DealAPRIL 27, 2015
After being fired upon, the ship issued a distress call, prompting the United States Navy to direct the destroyer, the Farragut, to the area. The Farragut, the defense official said, is now about 60 miles away. He said that so far there has been no communication between the United States Navy and Iran, but added that American aircraft are standing by to monitor the situation.
The episode could affect already fragile nuclear negotiations among the United States, five other world powers and Iran over efforts to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. A tentative agreement, reached this month, calls for Tehran to drastically cut its enrichment of uranium in exchange for an easing of sanctions.
But officials must still hammer out the final details of the agreement, and a naval confrontation would make selling a deal even more difficult, both in the United States and in Iran.
Defense officials said that no American sailors were aboard the ship. The Marshall Islands is a presidential republic with free association with the United States, which provides defense, subsidies and access to social services.
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