Iranian fast-attack boats. /Getty Images/File
A U.S. aircraft carrier on March 21 deployed helicopter gunships to track two sets of Iranian fast-attack vessels during a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy said.
Navy commanders told Reuters the USS George H.W. Bush confronted the Iranian boats after they approached a U.S.-led, five-vessel flotilla as it entered the Strait, Reuters reported. Continue reading
Ayatollah Khamenei released this threatening video six hours ago— “If Any War Happens”
The video continues: “They should know that if any war breaks out one will emerge humiliated out of it.” The video then shows US soldiers returning home in caskets. Continue reading
American warships are easy target, brags Ali Fadavi, claiming his forces could sink a US aircraft carrier in less than a minute
The naval commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, said Monday that the destruction of the US Navy is a major operational goal of his forces, an Iranian news agency reported. In an unusually aggressive interview, he was said to have declared that Iran’s navy had been conducting drills on how to sink US vessels in any potential combat, that Iran “naturally” wants to sink these vessels, and that it could sink a US aircraft carrier in less than a minute. Continue reading
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