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US Navy dispatches destroyer after Iran 'fires warnings shots and boards cargo ship'

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Post by Guest Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:22 pm

The US and Iran are eyeballing each other again after Iranian forces boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf and the American Navy dispatched a destroyer to monitor the situation. It was initially reported that a US cargo ship had been shot at and boarded, but it later emerged the ship was the MV Maersk Tigris, a Danish owned vessel registered in the Marshall Islands. The Pentagon said in a statement that Iranian forces boarded the ship at around 9am local time on Tuesday after firing a warning shot across its bows as it was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians then forced the ship deeper into Iranian waters.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/irans-military-seizes-us-cargo-ship-10210291.html

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