“A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, a rare interdiction operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The ship was several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka when the operatives boarded it and confiscated the cargo before letting the vessel proceed.”
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