CNBC's Eamon Javers joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk news U.S. forces seized cargo in the Indian Ocean heading toward Iran.

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.

The United States forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran last month amid brewing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.

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.

The Wall Street Journal says the operation was a rare maritime interdiction aimed at disrupting Iran’s military procurement efforts.

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.

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 ...

Slowing imports from China, driven by government quotas and US sanctions on Chinese entities, have pushed the volume of Iranian oil held in floating storage to 52 million barrels, the highest level since May 2023,

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,