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These people, who are residents of Chabahar in southeast Iran on the Sea of Oman, had been captured by Al-Shabaab terrorist group in international waters near Somalia in 2014.

International navies and a European Union anti-piracy task force have in recent years managed to crack down on pirates by patrolling waters with armed vessels and using satellite imagery.

Now that the UN authorization has expired, those ships and planes can still ward off and chase pirates but only in international air space and waters, not those of Somalia.