The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that its military forces have neutralised a Gambia-flagged merchant vessel that was attempting to navigate towards an Iranian maritime facility.
In a public dispatch shared on X, CENTCOM revealed that American forces had "observed M/V Lian Star transiting international waters toward an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman and issued more than 20 warnings while informing the vessel it was in violation of the US blockade".
