{"id":95048,"date":"2021-05-11T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=95048"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:00:47","slug":"us-ship-fires-warning-shots-at-iranian-vessels-in-the-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/05\/11\/us-ship-fires-warning-shots-at-iranian-vessels-in-the-persian-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"US ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"DW \u2014 The US navy has used gunfire to chase off Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf for the second time in a few weeks. It took two rounds of fire before the boats turned back.<\/p>\n

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The IRGC fast boats sped towards a group of US navy ships, including the USS Georgia guided-missile submarine, before being turned back<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A US navy coast guard ship fired off two salvos of machine-gun fire as a warning to rapidly approaching Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> on Monday, the US Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n

The 13 fast boats belonging to the Iranian paramilitary group, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> (IRGC), were carrying out “unsafe and unprofessional” maneuvers, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n

The boats came within 150 yards (137 meters) of several US Navy ships, including the guided-missile cruiser, USS Monterey, before turning back.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, harassment by the IRGC Navy is not a new phenomenon. It is something that all of our commanding officers and the crews of our vessels are trained for,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said.<\/p>\n

“This activity is the kind of activity that could lead to somebody getting hurt and could lead to a real miscalculation there in the region, and that doesn’t serve anybody’s interests.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Increased activity in the Persian Gulf<\/h2>\n

The USS Monterey had intercepted a boat carrying arms shipments on Sunday in the Arabian Sea, the destination of which was suspected to be Yemen where Iran-backed Houthi rebels are fighting an ongoing war against the Saudi-backed government.<\/p>\n

Kirby said that the Iranian boats on Monday were “acting very aggressively.”<\/p>\n

It took two rounds of warning shots from the coast guard cutter Maui to scare the IRGC boats off.<\/p>\n

A similar event happened late last month when IRGC vessels came too close to a patrol line in the northern end of the Persian Gulf near Kuwait. The warning shots fired then were the first in almost four years.<\/p>\n

The US and Iran are involved in ongoing, indirect negotiations in Vienna<\/a> over a possible return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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