{"id":233811,"date":"2021-05-12T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=233811"},"modified":"2021-05-13T06:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T06:38:46","slug":"us-warship-fires-30-warning-shots-at-13-iranian-attack-boats-targeting-guided-missile-submarine-georgia-and-its-escort-of-seven-military-vessels-as-tensions-rise-further-in-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=233811","title":{"rendered":"US warship fires 30 warning shots at 13 Iranian attack boats targeting guided-missile submarine Georgia and its escort of seven military vessels, as tensions rise further in the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said some of the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards of six U.S. military vessels escorting the submarine Georgia\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It was the second time in two weeks that a U.S. ship has opened fire to warn Iran<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;They were acting very aggressively,&#8217; Kirby said of the Iranian boats<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The coast guard cutter fired the warning shots from a .50 caliber machine gun\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Asked whether it appeared the Revolutionary Guard are trying to pick a fight with the U.S. Navy, Kirby declined to comment on the Iranians\u00b4 intentions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He added: &#8216;Sadly, harassment by the IRGC Navy is not a new phenomenon&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lauren Fruen \u2013 Daily Mail May 11, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The US Coast Guard fired 30 warning shots after 13 Iranian armed speedboats came within yards of seven American military vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said some of the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards of six U.S. military vessels escorting the guided-missile submarine Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time in two weeks that a U.S. ship has opened fire to warn vessels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\"><strong>Iran<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They were acting very aggressively,&#8217; Kirby said of the Iranian boats.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard cutter fired the warning shots from a .50 caliber machine gun before the Iranian vessels left, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether it appeared the Revolutionary Guard are trying to pick a fight with the U.S. Navy, Kirby declined to comment on the Iranians\u00b4 intentions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sadly, harassment by the IRGC Navy is not a new phenomenon. It is something that all of our commanding officers and the crews of our vessels are trained to for,&#8217; Kirby told reporters at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This activity is the kind of activity that could lead to somebody getting hurt and could lead to a real miscalculation there in the region, and that doesn&#8217;t serve anybody&#8217;s interests.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CiKdZCNMd6I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9564001\/US-ship-fires-30-warning-shots-encounter-13-armed-Iranian-boats-Strait-Hormuz.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian attack boats come withing 150 yards of U.S. Navy warships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233813,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233811\/revisions\/233813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}