The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday confirmed that 22 Iranian crew members, aboard the seized container ship by the United States last month, have been evacuated to Pakistan and will be handed over to Iran today under a “confidence-building measure”. “As a confidence-building measure by the United States of America, twenty-two crew members held aboard the seized Iranian container ship, ‘MV Touska’, have been evacuated to Pakistan,” FO spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said in a post on X.

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