The confrontation between U.S. Navy ships and Iranian boats by Daniela Simkova

The U.S. Navy ships USS Port Royal, USS Hopper, and USS Ingraham were on their way to Persian Gulf, when the incident had happened. The Persian Gulf is the major oil shipping route, where the ships were not supposed to be harmed. It was Sunday early morning, 5 a.m. Local time, when the Iranian boats dropped boxes in the water and warned U.S. Navy ships that they would start an explosion. Mohammed Ali Hosseini, a Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that it was all a big misunderstanding. The Iranian boats have mistaken the identity of U.S. ships, he said, but he did not want to make any comment on the warning about an explosion. "That is something normal that takes place every now and then for each party, and it (the problem) is settled after identification of the two parties," said for the the state news agency IRNA. The Iranian and U.S. Navy officials stated that fortunately there were no injuries, but one more moment and U.S. Navy would start to fire. They were preparing to self defense when suddenly the Iranian boats turned in the opposite directions. The officials do not have the exact copy of the communication between the Iranian boats and the U.S. Navy ships, but they are sure that Iranians radioed a sentence: "we're coming at you and you'll explode in a couple minutes."

by Daniela Simkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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