Iran acknowledges Revolutionary Guard encounter with US during Persian Gulf drill
Amir Vahdat, The Associated Press
Up to 11 vessels from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps navy came into close quarters with U.S. ships in the Arabian Gulf recently. The vessels approached the American ships with manned guns and ran across their bows and sterns repeatedly. Iran later claimed it was the U.S. that had interfered with one if its patrols.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard acknowledged Sunday it had a tense encounter with U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf last week, but alleged without offering evidence that American forces sparked the incident.
The incident Wednesday saw the U.S. Navy release video of small Iranian fast boats coming close to American warships as they operated in the northern Persian Gulf near Kuwait, with U.S. Army Apache helicopters.
In the Guard’s telling, its forces were conducting a drill and faced “the unprofessional and provocative actions of the United States and their indifference to warnings.†It said the Americans later withdrew.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/04/19/iran-acknowledges-revolutionary-guard-encounter-with-us-during-persian-gulf-drill/
