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flag U.S. forces raided a cargo ship near Sri Lanka in November 2025, seizing dual-use items bound for Iran and destroying them.

flag U.S. special operations forces raided a cargo ship en route from China to Iran in November 2025, several hundred miles off Sri Lanka’s coast, seizing dual-use materials potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons programs. flag The ship was allowed to continue after the operation, which marked the first such interception in years. flag The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command acknowledged the seizure of dual-use items but did not confirm details. flag The incident follows a separate U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela earlier in December, part of broader enforcement efforts under the Trump administration. flag Iran and China have not publicly responded.

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