U.S. military intercepted a cargo ship heading from China to Iran and seized the military cargo it was carrying. The Wall Street Journal reports this, citing U.S. officials.
According to the newspaper's sources, the ship was stopped in the Indian Ocean, near the coast of Sri Lanka. The operation was carried out to prevent Iran from replenishing its military arsenal; the cargo was destroyed, after which the ship was allowed to proceed to its designated location.
A few days earlier, the U.S. stopped an oil tanker carrying sanctioned crude oil from Venezuela and Iran. According to Pentagon spokesman Pete Hegseth, the ship was safely intercepted. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil Pinto called the incident an "act of piracy," and the country's officials sharply condemned it.
