Iranian forces have arrested all 13 pirates holding the bulker Eglantine after a two-day battle to free the ship.
"A ship carrying thousands of tonnes of goods to Iran was attacked and hijacked on March 26. Pirates wanted to take the ship to Somalia," the Fars news agency quoted Iran's navy commander Habibollah Sayyari as saying.
"Our forces reached the hijacked ship in the shortest time possible and after 48 hours of intensive fighting ...