[ April 26, 2024 ]
This didn’t happen under President Trump. This latest act of coercion will not prevent the Biden Administration from continuing their sham nuke talks with Iran.
Iran continues to:
🔺 harass American service members
🔺 fund terrorist groups across the Middle East
🔺 threaten our interests and our allies
Iran is a comprehensive threat that requires a comprehensive solution.https://t.co/m1YelhLHsz
— AIPAC (@AIPAC) October 7, 2021
Iranian state TV says speedboats intercepted US Navy vessel
Video shows alleged encounter in Persian Gulf; US Navy spokesman says not aware of any incident at sea
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The region remains on edge over Iran’s escalating nuclear program. Talks in Vienna to revive Tehran’s now-tattered 2015 accord with world powers have stalled since June, with no date set for their resumption.
Thursday’s Iranian report aired footage that the TV station said was filmed from one of the Guard speedboats. It shows a vessel with the US flag and several personnel on board as the speedboat appears to be chasing it.
A voice is heard in Farsi, saying: “Keep chasing them.” The report did not say when the encounter took place.
Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the US Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said that he wasn’t aware of any sort of unsafe interaction with Iran in the last two days.
The report is the first such report in recent months.
رهگیری قایق های تندرو آمریکایی توسط شناورهای سپاه
نیروی دریایی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی با انتشار تصاویری, قدرت رهگیری و اشراف کامل خود را بر نیروهای امریکایی و بیگانه در خلیج فارس نشان داد. pic.twitter.com/o6wZYeLPkc
— PressTV Farsi (@PressTV_Farsi) October 7, 2021
In May, the Guard rejected the US Navy’s claim that fast-approaching Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz sparked a tense encounter, a day after the US said that the Revolutionary Guard sent 13 armed speedboats too close to US Navy vessels in the Strait.
The US at the time said that a Coast Guard cutter fired warning shots when two of the Iranian boats came dangerously close.
The 2015 nuclear deal saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. In 2018, then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord, raising tensions across the wider Middle East and sparking a series of attacks and incidents.
With the talks in Vienna now stalled, Iran has breached limits set by the accord and is enriching small amounts of uranium to its closest-ever levels to weapons-grade purity as its stockpile continues to grow. Iran says that its nuclear program is only intended for peaceful purposes.
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