Iranian officials were deeply critical today of an incident in which US warships fired “warning shots” at a small Iranian patrol boat that was operating off the coast of Iran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard called it a “provocation” by US forces.
US Navy officials claimed the Iranian boat didn’t “follow the rules of the road,” and was a collision risk, though they conceded the boat was never less than 150 yards from any US warship in the first place.
This has been a recurring problem, with the US making a point of having a number of warships parked off the Iranian coast, and getting furious every time Iran’s own navy sends ships anywhere near them, even though the Iranian ships are usually in their own territorial water.
The US often faults Iran’s Navy as “unprofessional” in patrolling near the US ships, though Iran has been quick to note that it’s not like they’re sending ships into the Gulf of Mexico to park off the US coast, and that the US ships are nowhere near the US.
More & more bad news coming from hostile acts by U.S. forces 1000s of miles away from U.S. territory….
The U.S. says ‘international waters’. I’d love to know how many miles they were from Iranian territorial waters. We have a fit when Russia is within 100 miles of Alaska or Estonia.
The Zio-American Empire is a malevolent force. It seeks regime change (or war) with Iran and Syria, as well as the permanent subjugation of Palestine.
Should we rename the Persian Gulf? If so, I suggest we start calling it the Gulf of Tonkin as I’m pretty sure we’ll see an excellent example of history repeating itself just any day now.
“follow the rules of the road,”….you mean like the navy did a couple of weeks ago by plowing into a cargo ship? And it was the navy’s self admitted fault.
In January 2008 the Navy had an encounter with an Iranian patrol boat. The Navy produced a tape were the Iranians were supposed to have said we are coming, soon you will explode.
That tape was proven false as the above, when stated, was crystal clear as produced in a studio and certainly not from a boat at sea, with wind and motor noises.
Fool me once and…………….okay, they didn’t fool us once, but they are still trying.