Why?
Story here.
Somali pirates who have taken over a Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo have suffered skin burns, lost hair and fallen gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Reports are also stating that several have died.
Clearly, it sounds like the Iranian cargo vessel was carrying lethally dangerous cargo from China. En route to Europe.
To me, the symptoms reported being suffered by the pirates make me deduct that the cargo is radioactive. EXTREMELY radioactive. As if it were nuclear-weapons-grade material.
...The ship is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, or IRISL, a state-owned company run by the Iranian military.
According to the US Treasury Department, the IRISL regularly falsifies shipping documents to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments and operates under various covers to circumvent United Nations sanctions.
The ship set sail from Nanjing, China, at the end of July. According to its manifest, it was heading for Rotterdam where it would unload 42500 tons of iron ore and “industrial products” purchased by a German client.
