 He noted that the size of the naval unit sent out after MV "Arctic Sea" was larger than that dispatched to deal with the Somali piracy crisis.According to a widely circulated theory, the ship was transporting anti-aircraft weapons and cruise missiles destined for Iran, and the "hijackers" were gangsters hired by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad to prevent the cargo from reaching its destination.Referring to an earlier article in Russia's "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "The Independent" reported that an unnamed general in the Russian Navy spoke of his suspicion that Russian organized crime was illegally shipping S-300 or Kh-55 missiles to Iran.