A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

CNBC's Eamon Javers joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk news U.S. forces seized cargo in the Indian Ocean heading toward Iran.

US military boarded a cargo ship from China to Iran in November, seizing dual-use materials and highlighting aggressive enforcement of sanctions.

The United States has reportedly seized a Chinese cargo shipment bound for Iran in a rare special-operations raid at sea, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. U.S. forces boarded the vessel in the Indian Ocean,

WASHINGTON — A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials. The cargo consisted of components potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons, one official says, adding the shipment had been destroyed.

Iran’s first Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) counterterrorism drill is less about joint military strength and more about sending a signal: Tehran wants the world to see it as strategically relevant,

Less than six months after the Israeli and US airstrikes inside Iranian territory, Beijing’s ties with Tehran have not wavered despite Iran’s nuclear and economic setbacks from the war.

The United States forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran last month amid brewing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I'm looking into how Iran, perhaps naively, is relying on China and Russia to ...

The situation is playing out similar to that of Iran’s 12-day war over the summer, where Russia and China did little to help Tehran prevent the American-Israeli bombings.