A sanctioned Iranian sea vessel suspected of illegally carrying prohibited goods or weapons has unloaded its cargo at the port of Latakia in Syria, i24NEWS has learned.
The cargo ship, "Artenos," set sail from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas in the country's south on Oct. 6 and crossed the Suez Canal on Oct. 14, arriving in Syria at 2 a.m. Thursday morning.
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The company allegedly operating the Iranian ship, Omid Darya, is currently placed on a sanctions list by the US Treasury Department for supposedly providing maritime services to the Iranian government.
Could the reported attack on an Iranian-owned oil tanker be a false flag? 'Impossible to tell at this point,' @AcrossTheBay tells @DerrickeDennis, but 'not out of the question that #Iran would use this as a pretext for something ugly.': pic.twitter.com/wffqWYp5kz
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Bandar Abbas port is known as a commercial hub for the shipping of advanced technologies and is considered an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps stronghold.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
