Iranian Revolutionary Guards Point Weapon at US Helicopter- VOA

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Iranian Revolutionary Guards Point Weapon at US Helicopter

PENTAGON —

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boat pointed its weapon at a helicopter launched from aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. defense official told VOA Monday.

The official said the weapon pointed at the U.S. helicopter on Saturday resembled a “.60-caliber on a pole."

“The actions of the Iranians were both unprofessional and unsafe,” the defense official told VOA.

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