{"id":69162,"date":"2016-11-29T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69162"},"modified":"2016-11-29T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:15:47","slug":"iranians-point-weapon-at-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69162","title":{"rendered":"Iranians point weapon at US troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67636\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Iran-navy-500x265.jpg\" alt=\"Iran navy\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Iran-navy-500x265.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Iran-navy-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Iran-navy.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/iranian-vessel-points-weapon-at-us-helicopter-officials\/ar-AAkRRHc?OCID=ansmsnnews11\">MSN<\/a> which reports that a small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard boat pointed one of it&#8217;s armaments at a US helicopter that was in international waters;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident took place when a Navy MH-60 helicopter flew within half a mile (0.8 km) of two Iranian vessels in international waters. One of the vessels pointed a weapon at the helicopter, the U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The behavior by our standards is provocative and could be seen as an escalation,&#8221; the officials said. At no point did the crew of the helicopter feel threatened, they added.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what type of weapon was pointed at the U.S. aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/iranian-vessel-points-weapon-us-230254601.html\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was no immediate Iranian comment on the incident. Trump&#8217;s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just the latest in a series of incidents exasperated by the Iranians&#8217; inhospitable behavior in the region. For his part, President-elect Trump has claimed that any Iranian vessel that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be &#8220;shot out of the water,&#8221; during a Trump presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to MSN which reports that a small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard &hellip; <a title=\"Iranians point weapon at US troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69162\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iranians point weapon at US troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}