A French Navy vessel operating in the Middle East as part of a US-led coalition seized four separate shipments of drugs worth $108 million over the past month, confiscating 2,265 kg of heroin and 242 kg of methamphetamine from four different vessels in the Indian Ocean between April 19 and May 18. The US has encouraged Western allies to take a more prominent role in naval patrols in Middle Eastern waters in recent years as Washington seeks to deter China in the Pacific. Iran has continued to interfere with commercial shipping despite increased patrols and surveillance efforts by the US and its allies.

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