High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Francop Affair was a high seas incident on November 4, 2009 in which the Israeli military seized the MV Francop cargo ship in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and its cargo of hundreds of tons of weapons allegedly bound from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Hezbollah. The incident is also known by its military operation name, Operation Four SpeciesOn November 4, 2009 Israeli navy commandos of Shayetet 13 boarded the ship MV Francop in the eastern Mediterranean Sea without resistance, acting on intelligence reports which it had received. The ship was about 160 kilometres (100 mi) off the coast of Israel, near Cyprus. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Force (IDF) said the ship was carrying "dozens of shipping containers, carrying numerous weapons, disguised as civilian cargo among hundreds of other containers on board". The IDF also said that the weapons originated from Iran and were to be directed to Hezbollah.

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