{"id":98663,"date":"2020-04-22T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98663"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:40:36","slug":"irans-gulf-harassment-incurs-ire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98663","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Gulf Harassment Incurs Ire. Update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98665 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iranian-gunboat-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iranian-gunboat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iranian-gunboat-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iranian-gunboat-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><br \/>\nIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Gunboat<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) vessels harassed a formation of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships in the northern Persian Gulf, the Navy announced.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven Iranian vessels \u201crepeatedly conducted dangerous and harassing approaches of USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3), USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60), USS Firebolt (PC-10), USS Sirocco (PC-6), USCGC Wrangell (WPB-1332) and USCGC Maui (WPB-1304) while the U.S. vessels were conducting joint integration operations with U.S. Army AH-64E Apache attack helicopters in the North Arabian Gulf,\u201d the Navy statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>This blatant harassment of US vessels in international waters did not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump says he&#8217;s instructed Navy to &#8216;destroy&#8217; any Iranian gunboats harassing US ships<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Brooke Singman<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump said Wednesday that he&#8217;s instructed the U.S. Navy to &#8220;shoot down and destroy&#8221; any Iranian gunboats harassing American ships, in the wake of a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,&#8221; Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter happened last week. Six U.S. Navy warships were conducting drills with US Army Apache attack helicopters in international waters off Iran last Wednesday when they were repeatedly harassed by 11 Iranian IRGCN vessels, the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian ships repeatedly crossed in front and behind the U.S. vessels at extremely close range and high speeds, including multiple crossings of one ship, the Puller, with a 50-yard closest point of approach and within 10 yards of another ship, the Maui&#8217;s, bow, a 5th Fleet statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dn8Y5KXuQV0\" width=\"480\" height=\"490\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Turn a few of these boats into flaming datums, and the IRGCN will knock it off pretty quickly. I&#8217;m sure the Marines in the Cobras would be more than happy to lend a hand. Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-hes-instructed-navy-to-destroy-any-iranian-gunboats-harassing-us-ships\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Pentagon Leaders Say Trump\u2019s Warning to Iran Is \u2018Important, Perfect\u2019<\/h3>\n<p><strong>KRISTINA WONG<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Top Pentagon leaders Wednesday called President Trump\u2019s tweet instructing the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy \u201cany and all Iranian gunboats\u201d if they harassed its ships \u201can important warning\u201d and \u201cperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president issued an important warning to the Iranians. What he was emphasizing is all of our ships retain the right of self-defense, and people needed to be very careful in their interactions to understand the inherent right of self-defense,\u201d said Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. John Hyten, added that every U.S. ship that deploys into harm\u2019s way has the inherent right of self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we see hostile intent, we have the right to respond up to and including lethal force and, if it happens in the Gulf, if it happens anyway, we will respond with overwhelming lethal force, if necessary, to defend ourselves, and it\u2019s really that simple,\u201d Hyten said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted Wednesday morning: \u201cI have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m betting the Sailors are grinning over this. Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/22\/pentagon-leaders-say-trumps-warning-to-iran-is-important-perfect\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Gunboat Nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) &hellip; <a title=\"Iran&#8217;s Gulf Harassment Incurs Ire. Update.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98663\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran&#8217;s Gulf Harassment Incurs Ire. Update.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,308,331,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast-guard","category-iran","category-marines","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98663","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98666,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98663\/revisions\/98666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}