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The navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has detained a container ship in the Gulf that is allegedly linked to Israel, news reports said on Saturday, as the threat of an Iranian retaliatory attack on the Jewish state was deemed imminent. Images distributed by the Iranian state news agency IRNA and Tasnim news agency, which is considered a mouthpiece of the IRGC, showed commandos rappelling from a military helicopter onto the ship’s deck. The vessel was on its way to Iranian waters after being detained, according to IRNA. No further information was initially made available by…

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