Funny. When President Trump took out Soleimani, the media and the usual appeasement folks promised there d be WW3. Instead after a brief show of force, Iran backed off. Biden comes into office as Iran s best friend and the Islamic terror state keeps pushing harder and harder. There s a fairly obvious lesson there but you can expect the folks who need it to learn nothing from it. A U.S. Coast Guard ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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Two Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy fast in-shore attack craft conducted maneuvers while operating in close proximity to U.S. naval vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, May 10, 2021. (U.S. Navy)
11 May 2021
The Defense Department released two brief videos Monday night showing part of an encounter between U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels and fast-moving, armed Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz earlier that day.
The military said Monday that 13 fast boats, armed with machine guns, from Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy surrounded a formation of American ships transiting the strait and conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers.
US ship fires 30 warning shots after Iranian vessels approach fleet
Coast guard vessel takes action after 13 Iranian fast boats come within 150 yards in strait of Hormuz
Iranian warships are seen during a joint naval exercise with Russian navy in the Indian Ocean in February. Photograph: Wana News Agency/Reuters
Iranian warships are seen during a joint naval exercise with Russian navy in the Indian Ocean in February. Photograph: Wana News Agency/Reuters
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Mon 10 May 2021 15.07 EDT
First published on Mon 10 May 2021 14.55 EDT
A US coast guard ship fired about 30 warning shots as a group of 13 Iranian fast boats sped toward US navy vessels in the strait of Hormuz, in what the Pentagon called “unsafe and unprofessional” maneuvers by the naval arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGCN).
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart
This is the second time within the last month that U.S. military vessels have had to fire warning shots because of what they said was unsafe behavior by Iranian vessels in the region, after a relative lull in such interactions over the past year.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the warning shots were fired after the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards (450 feet) of six U.S. military vessels, including the USS Monterey, that were escorting the guided-missile submarine Georgia.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Maui fired the warning shots from a .50-caliber machine gun before the Iranian vessels left, Kirby said.
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Washington: A US Coast Guard ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy came close to it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday (Tuesday AEST).
This is the second time within the last month that US military vessels have had to fire warning shots because of what they said was unsafe behaviour by Iranian vessels in the region, after a relative lull in such interactions over the past year.
US sailors search for surface contacts during a Strait of Hormuz transit in 2019.
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