Iran says it will soon take on “to sequencing the US cargo ship

Iran has warned that it will soon be <x0 taken by” after the US seized an Iranian cargo ship.

In an official response to the operation earlier, Iran's top military commander said the US had violated the two-week ceasefire between the two countries by shooting one of its commercial ships.

She described the seizure of the Tousska ship with the Iranian flag from the US Army as “naval and armed destruction”.

Iranian forces attacked several US military ships, fearing after the operation, the military command said.

She said the ship was going from China to Iran.

The US Army has published an update on the selection of a cargo ship with an Iranian flag from its marines after Donald Trump announced the operation.

The Tousska ship was picked up by the USS Sprruance, a missile-deposed destroyer while trying to sail towards the Iranian Bandar Abbas base, the Central Command said.

US forces issued multiple “warning against the ship over a six-hour period, she said.

When she did not respond, Spruance told the ship to evacuate the engine room before shooting several times in the area.

Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit then boarded the cargo ship.

The American “Forces acted in a deliberate, professional and proportional way to ensure compatibility”, the Central Command said.

She added that about 25 commercial ships had been instructed to return or return to an Iranian port since the launch of American blockades Monday. /Telegraph/