IRAN will soon release the four Filipinos aboard the Portuguese-flagged cargo vessel MSC Aries that Iranian authorities seized, a Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) official said.

On Saturday, Iran's state-run IRNA News Agency reported that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Special Naval Force seized the ship near the Strait of Hormuz, near the Gulf of Oman.

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