TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s naval forces will warn or confront any foreign ship entering the country’s territorial waters, the Iranian defence minister said Thursday, remarks that came after an incident this week involving a U.S. warship. Dehghan’s comments came after four vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard approached a U.S. destroyer on Tuesday in what an American defence official described as a “high speed intercept” near the Strait of Hormuz. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said two of the Iranian vessels came within 300 yards of the USS Nitze in an incident in international waters in the narrow strait. U.S. Navy video of the incident obtained by The Associated Press shows American sailors on the Nitze firing flares and sounding the warship’s horn as the Iranian boats approached. In January, Iran briefly detained 10 U.S. Navy sailors who mistakenly steered into Iranian waters.

Source: National Post August 25, 2016 13:30 UTC