Iran War’s forgotten captives: Sailors Trapped in the Gulf
About two dozen merchant seamen on MSC’s container ship MSC Francesca have been held for nearly four months off Iran’s coast after Iran seized the vessel on April 22 while it tried to transit the Strait of Hormuz. MSC has not commented. The International Maritime Organization says thousands of ships and nearly 20,000 sailors were stranded; two Francesca sailors were released.






