US Navy fires cautioning shots at Iranian boats

Washington: Iranian vessels on Sunday approached a US Navy ship at high speed near the strait in five separate instances and as a result a US Navy ship fired up caution shots at Iranian boats near the Strait of Hormuz.

The USS Mahan tried to tell the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard boats to stop via radio communication.However the vessels didn’t respond to the request, prompting the destroyer to fire three warning flares.

Sources said ,The Iranian boats approached to within 900 yards of the Mahan, which had been escorting two US ships. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has led an annual exercise in the strait simulating manoeuvres necessary to shut down the entrance to the Persian Gulf.