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|Ship name=MV ''Iran Deyanat''
|Ship owner=[[Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines]]
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|Ship ordered=February 1982<ref>This and other particulars come from [http://exchange.dnv.com/exchange/main.aspx?extool=vessel&subview=summary&vesselid=13147 DNV], [http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Iran-Deyanat-8107579.html VesselTracker.com] and here: [http://www.wellandcanal.ca/salties/i/irandeyanat/deyanat2.htm Iran Denayat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101111644/http://www.wellandcanal.ca/salties/i/irandeyanat/deyanat2.htm |date=2008-11-01 }}, which gets data from [[Lloyd's Register - Fairplay|Fairplay Internet Ship Register]] ([[Lloyd's Register]]) and [[World Ship Society|Marine News]].</ref>
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'''[[Merchant vessel|MV]] ''Iran Deyanat''''' ({{langx|fa|ایران دیانت}}) is an Iranian ship (owned and operated by the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines]]) that was hijacked in the [[Gulf of Aden]] by 40 [[Piracy in Somalia|pirates]] with [[AK-47|Kalashnikovs]] and [[Rocket-propelled grenade|RPGs]] on August 21, 2008. The [[crew]] of the ship numbered 29: a [[Pakistan]]i [[captain (naval)|captain]], 14 [[Iran]]ians including an engineer, 3 [[India]]ns, 2 [[Filipinos]], and 10 [[Croatians]].<ref name="longwar">[http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/mystery_surrounds_hi.php Mystery surrounds hijacked Iranian ship] Nick Grace, [[Long War Journal]]. Accessed October 1, 2008.</ref> The ship was freed on October 10, and the crew was unharmed.<ref name="freed">[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Indian-crew-of-hijacked-ship-freed-unharmed-by-Somali-pirates/371975 Indian crew of hijacked ship freed unharmed by Somali pirates], [[Press Trust of India]] via [[The Indian Express]]. October 10, 2008.</ref> The ship went underway bound to [[Oman]] and then to its final destination at [[Rotterdam]].<ref>[http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnBLA934372.html Iranian ships step up precautions in Gulf of Aden] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116165821/http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnBLA934372.html |date=2008-11-16 }}, October 14, 2008. Reuters Africa. Accessed November 15, 2008.</ref>

==Hijacking==
The ship had declared as cargo minerals and industrial products such as iron ore,<ref name="fox">[https://www.foxnews.com/story/mysterious-cargo-aboard-iranian-ship-seized-by-pirates-raises-wmd-concerns Mysterious Cargo Aboard Iranian Ship Seized by Pirates Raises WMD Concerns] Joseph Abrams, [[Fox News]].com. September 30, 2008.</ref> but Somali negotiators are alleged to have said that the true cargo included arms and chemical weapons.<ref name="longwar"/> The ''Deyanat'' had departed from China with the purported intent of selling its cargo in Germany, but Somali officials say that the ship was truly headed to [[Eritrea]]; in addition, the ship's arrival in the Gulf of Aden was supposedly "suspiciously early."<ref name="longwar"/> "Many of us ran out on the deck. We saw a group of men in two tiny speedboats close to the ship. The ship’s radar had failed to pick them up. The men were firing in the air," crew member Jeevan Kiran D’Souza said. "There were 16 of them. They threw a ladder fitted with grappling hooks over the side of the ship and clambered aboard. They stormed all cabins and herded the entire crew into a small room, and told the captain to cut the engine."<ref name="gunpoint">[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-At-gunpoint--we-survived-on-bread-and-two-cups-of-water-/374895 ‘At gunpoint, we survived on bread and two cups of water’] Shaju Philip, [[Indian Express]]. Accessed October 20, 2008.</ref> After the hijackers took control of the ship, they used the ''Deyanat'' to tow their boats along. They shuttled between [[Reassban]], [[Reassaaf]], and other locations (purportedly to evade rival pirate groups) before meeting their boss, "Abdul Hakeem,"<ref name="gunpoint" /> and finally mooring off the coast of [[Eyl]] in Somalia—which is allegedly the base of a crime syndicate.<ref name="times">[http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=851953 Pirates die strangely after taking Iranian ship] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001081402/http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=851953 |date=2008-10-01 }} [[The Sunday Times (South Africa)|The Times of South Africa]]. Andrew Donaldson, September 28, 2008.</ref> In fact, multiple other pirated ships were moored near the ''Deyanat''.<ref name="now" /> The number of pirates guarding the ship included 50 on shore and 50 on board.

==Conditions aboard the ship==
The sailors aboard the ship were limited to two slices of moldy bread and a ration of two cups of water.<ref name="gunpoint" /> Though the pirates took $10,000 from the ship's captain and the crew's cell phones, clothes, and possessions,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022074617/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-10-18/goa/27908891_1_sans-water-navelim-speed-boat  Surviving sans water was tough] Govind Kamat Maad, [[Times of India]]. Accessed October 20, 2008.</ref> they were allowed to call home for the first two days after the hijacking.<ref name="now">[http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=18631 3 sailors onboard Iranian vessel return] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223205751/http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=18631 |date=2009-02-23 }} [[Times Now]]. Accessed October 20, 2008.</ref> The pirates carried guns at all time and negotiations were conducted "at the officer's level," so most of the crew knew nothing of the pirates' demands.<ref name="now" />

==Ransom==
A ransom was set at $2 million.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} US officials reportedly would not comment.<ref name="longwar"/> At one point the [[The Sunday Times (South Africa)|Sunday Times]] reported that the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines|IRISL]] paid $200,000 in the first of a series of ransom payments, but the Iranian company denied the claim.<ref name="times" /> The ship "was supposed to be released, but now they are saying the $200,000 was for facilitation only. They want more money for the ransom," said Andrew Mwangura, of the Kenyan-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme.<ref name="reuters">[http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL8166636.htmlPirates demand ransom for Egyptian ship] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130201064358/http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL8166636.htmlPirates |date=2013-02-01 }} September 8, 2008, [[Reuters]]. Accessed November 15, 2008.</ref>

According to [[Lloyd's List]], the [[IRISL]] ultimately paid $2.5 million to free the ship.<ref name="lloyds">{{cite news
|last1=Hill
|first1=Helen
|last2=Smith
|first2=Neville
|title=Hijacked Iranian bulker berths at Rotterdam
|work=[[Lloyd's List]]
|publisher=[[Informa]]
|date=November 14, 2008
|url=http://www.lloydslist.com/ll/news/hijacked-iranian-bulker-berths-at-rotterdam/20017590404.htm
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126073544/http://www.lloydslist.com/ll/news/hijacked-iranian-bulker-berths-at-rotterdam/20017590404.htm
|archivedate=January 26, 2009
|location=London
|accessdate=March 28, 2016
}}</ref>

==Mysterious contents==
[[Image:Eyl location.jpg|right|thumb|450px|Location of [[Eyl]], where the hijacked ''Deyanat'' was stationed]]
The IRISL, which owns the ship, has been designated for proliferation activity by the U.S. Treasury office, thereby freezing its assets and banning American trade with it, including food and medical supplies, in accordance with US sanctions of Iran. The US accuses the shipping line of "falsifying documents and using deceptive schemes to shroud its involvement in illicit commerce," saying the "IRISL's actions are part of a broader pattern of deception and fabrication that Iran uses to advance its nuclear and missile programs."<ref>[http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/hp1130.htm US Treasury HP-1130: "Major Iranian Shipping Company Designated for Proliferation Activity"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014072127/http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/hp1130.htm |date=2008-10-14 }} [[United States Department of the Treasury]], Press Room. September 10, 2008.</ref>

Though the ship carried industrial contents such as iron ore, other potentially illegal cargo has been surmised by the blog [[Public Multimedia|Long War Journal]]. According to Long War Journal (which as sources for its reports includes "Somali officials," "independent sources," and chiefly a man named Hassan Allore Osman, listed as [[Puntland]]'s Minister of Minerals and Oil), some of the pirates who boarded the ship suffered a strange illness, which includes loss of hair and skin burns, and some pirates having died. The pirates tried to access the cargo on the ship, but the containers were locked and the captain and Iranian engineer from the ship's crew gave changing accounts of the cargo's contents.<ref name="longwar"/> "That ship is unusual," the Long War Journal reports Osman as saying. "It is not carrying a normal shipment."<ref name="longwar"/>

In addition, Director of the East African's Seafarer's Assistance Programme Andrew Mwangura told South Africa's [[The Sunday Times (South Africa)|Sunday Times]]: “We don’t know exactly how many, but the information that I am getting is that some of them had died. There is something very wrong about that ship." Mwangura, however, did not name the source of his information, so it is not known whether he was referring to the Long War Journal reports.<ref name="times"/>

Experts have said that the accounts of the illness sound more like radiation poisoning than chemical poisoning. "It's baffling," Jonathan Tucker, from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said to Fox News. "I'm not aware of any chemical agent that produces loss of hair within a few days. That's more suggestive of high levels of radioactive waste."<ref name="fox"/>

In all, 16 pirates died from the ship's contents.<ref>[http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=ca1a1c5b-24e2-47d0-bb6c-066db4031957 Seized ship's cargo deadly] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220153053/http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=ca1a1c5b-24e2-47d0-bb6c-066db4031957 |date=2009-02-20 }} [[Vancouver Sun]] (news services). October 27, 2008. Accessed November 24, 2008.</ref> Differing analyses have claimed that the ship's contents were planned to be delivered to [[Hezbollah]] or to [[al-Qaida]] groups in the [[Horn of Africa]];<ref>[http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/me_iran0630_10_22.asp 16 pirates died after handling substance on captured Iranian ship] [[World Tribune]]. Accessed October 23, 2008.</ref> ultimately, however, the ship berthed at the destination listed on its manifest, Rotterdam, unloading food and minerals.<ref name="lloyds" />

It has been speculated that the ship's actual destination was [[Eritrea]], and that its cargo was small arms and chemical weapons for Islamist anti-government rebels in Somalia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/tag/mv-iran-deyanat/ |title=Archived copy |website=www.nationalterroralert.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927102305/http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/tag/mv-iran-deyanat/ |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Docking==
The MV ''Iran Deyanat'' arrived at Rotterdam on 11 November 2008. A "multi-disciplinary team comprising inspectors from the port authority, customs and {{sic|hab|our|expected=harbour}} police boarded and searched the ship" and found no hazardous substances on board.<ref name="lloyds"/> The paperwork was in order and the ship was unloaded. Lloyd's List reported that the ship’s charterer—German-based Hinrichs—denied any evidence of pirates falling ill during the hijacking.<ref name="lloyds" /> This contradicts the claims, however, that local officials made to [[The Sunday Times (South Africa)|The Times of South Africa]].<ref name="times"/>

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