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

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.

China’s independent oil refiners are boosting their intake of Iranian crude from onshore tanks and ships idling at sea after Beijing issued a fresh round of import quotas late last month.

A U.S. 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 reported on Friday, citing U.S. officials.

The Wall Street Journal says the operation was a rare maritime interdiction aimed at disrupting Iran’s military procurement efforts.

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.

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,

Iran’s crude exports to China have seen a notable rise following Beijing’s latest round of import quotas, with independent Chinese refiners—known as “teapots”—increasing their intake from floating storage and port reserves.

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