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,

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.

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

EADaily, December 13th, 2025. A unit of American special forces in November landed in the Indian Ocean on a cargo ship, which followed from China in Iran and confiscated his cargo.

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.

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.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomes foreign ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday. - Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Anadolu/Getty Images Weeks after his country was battered ...

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,

By bnm Tehran bureau & bnm Gulf bureau Iran, Saudi Arabia and China held the third meeting of their joint trilateral committee in Tehran on December 9 to follow up on the Beijing agreement, with the three countries issuing a joint statement calling for an immediate halt to Israeli aggression in Palestine,

When Russia sought assistance from China, North Korea and Iran amid its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, some Western officials expressed concern about the formation of a new axis against Western countries. But none of these countries came to Iran's aid ...