I can't believe the American media (including Newsweek) is still referring to this fake incident as an actual "confrontation"!
People, there was no confrontation. the whole incident was made up by neo-con members of the american terrorist navy. That has already been proven, and even the PENTAGON has distanced itself from the fraudulent video that american media was flashing over and over while screaming "PROVOCATION... IRAN...WORLD WAR III". The week after this video was aired, BushCo was on its planned tour of Arab dictatorships, selling $$billions in smart bomb kits, WMD's and other good stuff to people with Al Quaida affliations....
These people are shameless...they have lied us into one war after another and they continue to lie through their teeth, oblivious to the millions they have murdered in the last 40 years to fatten their wallets and commit racial genocide.
The IRGC continuously monitors and contacts american terrorist ships for obvious reasons...it is a routine event that occurrs 24 hours a day, and americans regularly cross into Iranian waters illegally to provoke the iranians and to intimidate civiliar shipping and air traffic (as we saw in the 1988 incidients where 290 iranians were murdered while the US was helping the arabs commit genocide against iran)
High Stakes In The Gulf
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Eager to avoid future confrontations between Iranian boats and U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. government has quietly sent word to Tehran asking for dialogue. The stern four-paragraph message, dated Jan. 10, was delivered to Tehran via a Swiss intermediary. The communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by NEWSWEEK, notes that Washington had sent an earlier request on Nov. 21, 2007, to limit "the possibility of miscommunication and misunderstanding" in the Gulf, but that "we have not received a response to that message. We believe it is in Iran's interest to consider [it] and avoid any further provocative actions." (Click here to view the memo)
U.S. officials say they are not hopeful that Iran will respond now, given its silence before. In December, after the first message was sent, there were two encounters in the Strait of Hormuz; one led the U.S. captain to fire warning shots. During the most recent provocation on Jan. 6, five Iranian launches careered around three U.S. warships for close to half an hour, at one point dropping objects in the path of one of the vessels, according to the Navy. A radio transmission from an unknown source declared a U.S. ship would "explode." "They came at us as a group of five, in a formation," said Cmdr. Jeffrey James, skipper of the destroyer USS Hopper. "They knew what they were doing."
Though Pentagon officials, speaking anonymously because of the topic's sensitivity, stress there is no proof, Navy analysts at Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain have concluded that the Jan. 6 confrontation was most likely a deliberate effort by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to persuade U.S. vessels to open fire on them. The purpose: to create an incident prior to President George W. Bush's visit to the region, which was intended in part to rally support from Arab countries against Iran. (An Iranian national-security official called the accusations "fabricated." Insisting on anonymity, he said they were a "show for the Arab countries.") The increased "buzzing" of U.S. warships by IRGC launches comes as the guard has taken more control of Gulf operations from Iran's regular Navy.
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