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Difficult for everybody in the straits of hormuz and there has been a history of this. during the tanker wars of 1988, during the iran/iraq war, a u.s. ship was escorting a tanker and struck an iranian mine and the u.s. reangt -- react by launching operation preying mantis and attack several iranian ships. so it's a confusing situation. but a recap of yesterday for now. >> the u.s. military is put out a video that it said shows the irgc removing a mine from the hull of one of the tankers attacked yesterday in order to cover up their tracks. president trump said this isir refusable evidence tha...

Week on june 13th, a u.s. reaper responded to the first distress call, the first tanker attacked in the gulf of oman and as it got nearby the u.s. military is saying an iranian boated a surface-to-air missile at the u.s. drone missing it. this comes of course after two tankers were attacked in the gulf of oman. the u.s. is saying they were attacked by limb pit mines and putting the blame on iran and iran tinis to deny it was involved. >> reporter: new evidence pointing the -- finger at iran. u.s. report that two reaper drones were targeted by iran-backed forces and one nearly missed about a su...

Iran could easily argue they're removing mines attached by someone else. iran is also been arguing that these attacked yesterday and the ones last month were false flag operations designed to frame iran and justify some sort of a conflict. the key now is to look for a powerful clue to determine exactly what and who caused the damage to those two tankers. the u.s. has a powerful naval presence in the region with a wide range of intelligence assets on board. they will be collecting their brief from the attack in order to trace all of the evidence back to its source. and just now u.s. officials s...

Called credible and imminent threats to u.s. and allies here. we traveled to the lincoln with general frank mackenzie, the head of u.s. central command who requested the additional forces. he said the lincoln's presence is impacting iranian behavior. >> the fact that the carrier has been here has caused the iranians to recalculate, it is very concerning to them that this big chunk of american will is sitting here. >> reporter: but u.s. defense officials say the lincoln, most visible u.s. deterrent here at sea, was in port in oman when the tankers were attacked. kendis, it is important to note,...

Motor tanker front alt air on fire. >> reporter: late friday iranian fast boats blocked commercial tugs from towing away the cripples front alt air and the u.s. said iran targeted the t k tankers with mines, skplosives attached to the side of the fish below the water line. the u.s. military releasing this video. they claim shows an iranian revolutionary guard corp patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the tankers after the attack. president trump blaming iran. >> well, iran did do it. and you know they did it because you saw the boat. i guess one of the mines didn't explode and i...