The senior commander added that when Iranian vessels pass by the American ships at a distance of several kilometers, they claim that the Iranian boats have approached to within a kilometer of them.
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In one such incident last month, a U.S. Navy spokesman said four vessels from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps approached an American destroyer at high speed, ignoring radio communications and other warnings.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has threatened that he would order the US Navy to open fire on Iranian boats, if they approach US warships in the Persian Gulf.
The warship then had to change its course, according to the military, which described the interaction as “unsafe”. USA navy officials say ships from the two countries interacted more than 300 times in 2015 and more than 250 times in the first half of this year, and claims 10 percent of those encounters were unsafe and unprofessional.
While the mainstream media was busy tripping all over itself to highlight his comment about shooting Iranian ships out of the water, it missed the boat completely when the truth came out about Hillary Clinton.
Back in January, Iran’s Navy arrested the crews of two United States patrol boats that had trespassed into Iranian territorial waters.
Iranian officials have previously insisted that they will continue to react when foreign warships are deployed off their coast.
Trump, however, has taken an aggressive posture on Iran from the very beginning of his controversial campaign, repeatedly denouncing the Barack Obama administration for having negotiated “a bad deal” with Iran which he said would “lead to a nuclear holocaust”.
This buildup will likely cost hundreds of billions of dollars, according to Military Times.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, he said at the forum.
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“Every day that goes by, this just becomes more and more of a reality television show”, Clinton said in response to a reporter’s question Friday after she met with a bipartisan group of national security officials.
