Adding to the number of “dangerous and unprofessional” incidents that the US Navy is complaining about off the coast of Iran, officials are now claiming that they had seven Iranian speedboats come within a half kilometer of them, and follow the USS Firebolt, which was operating off the Iranian coast, for “about eight minutes.”
Officials also claimed one of the Iranian boats got in front of the US ship and stopped, forcing the US ship to change course. The US Navy is warning that it was a “dangerous harassing situation” that could result in future US “defensive measures.”
US officials claimed two similar incidents last month, in which Iranian speedboats came to within visual range of US warships off their coast. Iran insists that they will continue to take such measures when foreign warships approach their territorial waters uninvited.
While top US officials continue to rail about the “unsafe” measures, analysts doubt that such incidents are really a huge matter, saying they are likely “a lower-level commander trying to show off.”
So let’s see if i have this right. The US has its warships nosing around off the Iranian coast, 9,500 sea miles from the east coast of the US (assuming a Suez Canal transit). And the Navy has the audacity to complain about the Iranian coast guard challenging its ships? What arrogance!
Apparently the US thinks all the worlds oceans are part of the empire, and no country has the right to challenge that.