Last week, Iran vowed bitter revenge after Israel killed senior IRGC commanders in an attack on their diplomatic facility in Damascus. Israel battened down the hatches and warned Tehran about “escalation,” and the Biden administration moved military assets while warning the mullahs that the US would back Israel to the hilt. Everyone expected some sort of response this weekend, despite all the warnings.
Video purportedly from the IRGC boarding of the Israeli-linked MSC ARIES container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. pic.twitter.com/UXOS2EuxKU
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Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday.
Iran’s state-run IRNA said a special forces unit of the Guard’s navy…
