Iran and South Korea after Iranian Revolutionary Guards boarded a South Korean chemical tanker, the MT Hankuk Chemi, and took its 23 crew prisoner.
According to an official release from the Iranian government, the action was taken because the ship had been “polluting the Persian Gulf with chemicals”An official from DM Shipping, the parent company that owns the tanker, maintains that the ship “did not cause environmental pollution,” and that the Iranian action had taken place “on the high seas” outside Iranian territorial waters.The Hankuk Chemi is currently impounded at the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran.South Korea’s foreign ministry has demanded that Iran releases the ship and its crew immediately, adding that South Korean forces stationed.
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