A U.S. Navy vessel fired a warning shot in an “unprofessional” encounter with ships from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s state news agency reported Saturday. The USS Nimitz, accompanied by another U.S. ship, fired the shot Friday as a helicopter hovered over the Iranian ships near an Iranian offshore oil-drilling platform in the Persian Gulf, the report said. An Iranian vessel had ignored repeated radio calls as it sped toward the U.S. ship, prompting the American vessel to fire warning shots, Fox News reported. U.S. military vessels have had approximately 60 unsafe interactions with Iranian ships in the Gulf since 2015, according to U.S. military records. On Friday, the U.S. imposed new sanctions on Iran, targeting six Iranian subsidiaries of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group.

Source: Fox News July 29, 2017 09:45 UTC