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Iranians taunt the U.S. Navy.(Inside Track)
On January 6, as three U.S. warships were passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a group of five Iranian speedboats approached and harassed the ships in what U.S. officials and the media quickly termed a "provocative" act. According to Agence France-Presse, the encounter was a "face-off between US and Iranian ships." The Boston Globe's headline read: "Disaster avoided, but just barely." In his reaction, President Bush said: "We viewed it as a provocative act. It is a dangerous situation and they should not have done it."
The claims of imminent danger to the U.S. ships were based in part on a threatening audio transmission that could be heard in the background on some of the video footage of the encounter released by the Navy. According to the Navy Times, a "threat--' I am coming to you. You will explode in a few minutes'--was picked up during the incident, further jacking up the tension." The Navy, however, admitted that it did not know if the Iranians were the source of the transmission. "Based on my experience operating in that part of the world, where there is a lot of maritime activity, trying to discern [who is speaking on the ...
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