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U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel

posted by martyb on Friday August 26 2016, @04:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the Boaty-McBoatInYourFace dept.

takyon writes:

CNN reports that a U.S. Navy patrol craft fired warning shots at an Iranian vessel:

A US Navy patrol craft fired three warning shots at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boat Wednesday after US officials said it had harassed that patrol craft, CNN has learned. Another US patrol craft and a Kuwaiti Navy ship were also harassed in the incident, which took place in the northern end of the Persian Gulf.

At one point, the Iranian boat came within 200 yards of one of the US Navy boats. When it failed to leave the area after the Navy had fired flares and had a radio conversation with the Iranian crew, the US officials said, the USS Squall fired three warning shots. Following standard maritime procedures, the Navy fired the three shots into the water to ensure the Iranians understood they needed to leave the immediate area.

Also at Reuters.

The incident occurred a day after four Iranian vessels made a "high speed intercept" of a U.S. warship.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @07:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @07:54PM (#393655)
    It's more like me planting a sentry gun 5000 miles away from my house but across the street from your house, and if your stupid kids get too close to it, it's their fault for dying. After all the sentry gun is to protect "everyone"'s interests.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @07:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @07:09AM (#393874)
    And everyone knows they should not come within 200 yards of a sentry gun and definitely not charge at it. They are the bad guys for trying to threaten our brave and precious sentry guns. Which are courageously taking risks to defend us 5000 miles away.