Ali Khamenei (R) looks at a new Iranian-made warship during manoeuvres in the Caspian Sea in Nowshar, 210 km (130 miles) north of Tehran. REUTERS

JERUSALEM, April 13 (Reuters) – Teheran is conducting piracy and should be sanctioned for it, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday, after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

“The Ayatollah regime of Khamenei is a criminal regime that supports Hamas’ crimes and is now conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law,” Katz said. “I call on the European Union and the free world to immediately declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guards corps as a terrorist organization and to sanction Iran now.”


(Reporting by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Alex Richardson)


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