The move is in response to increasingly provocative behavior by the Iranian navy in the strait within the last week, the DOD statement said.
Early Tuesday morning, Iranian navy vessels approached and fired warning shots across the bridge of the Maersk Tigris, a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship, and subsequently boarded and detained it and its crew.
- On Friday, the same types of Iranian ships surrounded and harassed a US-flagged cargo vessel named the Maersk Kensington.
- The commercial vessels are being accompanied by combat ships to prevent harassment or possible interdiction, it said.
Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
2/5/15
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ReplyDeleteThe Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes in Yemen has used US-supplied cluster bombs banned by much of the world, a rights group has said.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had evidence that the bombs were used at least twice against Houthi rebels. There were no reports of casualties.
Cluster bombs spread small bombs over a wide area and can leave unexploded munitions buried in the ground.
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