{"id":113480,"date":"2023-09-29T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=113480"},"modified":"2023-09-29T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:01:10","slug":"us-says-iran-forces-aimed-laser-at-american-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/09\/29\/us-says-iran-forces-aimed-laser-at-american-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"US Says Iran Forces Aimed Laser at American Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113481 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper--150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper--24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper--36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper--48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AH-1Z-Viper-.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 <\/span>Iranian naval forces repeatedly aimed a laser at an American military helicopter during a routine flight in international airspace over the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter \u2014 an AH-1Z Viper \u2014 is attached to a unit deployed on the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship, which was sent to the region as part of American efforts to deter seizures of commercial tanker ships by Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian &#8220;vessels shone a laser multiple times at the aircraft while in flight&#8221; on Wednesday, said a statement from Commander Rick Chernitzer, spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are not the actions of a professional maritime force. This unsafe, unprofessional and irresponsible behavior&#8221; by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy &#8220;risks U.S. and partner nation lives and needs to cease immediately,&#8221; Chernitzer added.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military says Iran has either seized or tried to take control of nearly 20 internationally flagged ships in the region over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a series of such incidents since then-U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions on the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 Iranian naval forces repeatedly aimed a laser at an American military helicopter during a routine flight in international airspace over the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said Thursday. The helicopter \u2014 an AH-1Z Viper \u2014 is attached to a unit deployed on the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship, which was sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113483,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113480\/revisions\/113483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}