European Union and Indian navies take over ship used by pirates off Somalia to seize tanker
https://apnews.com/article/somalia-piracy-hellas-aphrodite-tanker-d4599ec26d60283e70755194cd2ea12c
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European Union and Indian navies take over ship used by pirates off Somalia to seize tanker
https://apnews.com/article/somalia-piracy-hellas-aphrodite-tanker-d4599ec26d60283e70755194cd2ea12c
Posted by Lone-T
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SS: In a rare multinational success against resurgent Somali piracy, EU and Indian navies seized an Iranian dhow mother ship on Nov 12, 2025, disrupting a pirate cell that hijacked the Malta-flagged tanker Hellas Aphrodite—the first commercial vessel taken since May—amid a 2024 spike of seven attacks fueled by Houthi chaos in the Red Sea. With original Iranian crew freed unharmed and evidence secured for prosecutions, this Operation Atalanta boarding underscores fragile gains from post-2011 patrols, as Yemen’s Gaza-linked disruptions ripple into Indian Ocean chokepoints costing billions in risks. Does this hybrid naval pact signal a robust counter to piracy’s ties with regional insurgencies, or expose the limits of ad-hoc coalitions in a multipolar maritime domain where Iran’s unacknowledged vessels blur state-pirate lines?
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