Pentagon Says Ships Harassed by Iran
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WASHINGTON -- In what U.S. officials called a serious provocation, Iranian boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the American vessels.
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Iranian boats were involved in two previously undisclosed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, a US official says.
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The U.S. military has video and audio recordings of Iranian high-speed boats that threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. convoy in the Persian Gulf and plans to release them, the top U.S. Navy commander in the Mideast said Tuesday.
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NATO has intercepted Iranian weapons shipments to Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, providing evidence Iran is violating international law to aid a group it once considered a bitter enemy, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.
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A new Iranian computer game sets players   the task of blowing up a U.S. tanker in the Gulf to block the   sea route for much of the world's oil supplies, a newspaper   reported on Saturday.
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The US State Department Tuesday said iran&#39;s missile program posed a threat to the region and US interests. The United States has had and continues to have serious concerns about Iran&#39;s missile program, department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.
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President Bush warned Iran yesterday that its confrontation with three U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf on Sunday was a provocative act, as the Pentagon released audio and video recordings of the dawn showdown.
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American Naval forces were involved in two high-profile, but apparently unrelated, incidents in the Persian Gulf region since Sunday:
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Sizable shipments of Iranian weapons are being supplied to Taliban militants in Afghanistan, suggesting the government in Tehran is aware of them, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
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Israel and Iran traded significantly escalated threats of military attacks in recent months as the FBI investigated allegations that a Pentagon official passed secret U.S. policy information about Iran to Israeli authorities.
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American officials claim 'serious provocation' from Iranian warships at sea
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Iran has increased arms shipments to both Iraq's Shiite extremists and Afghanistan's Taliban in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to pressure American and other Western troops operating in its two strategic neighbors, according to senior U.S. and European officials.
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Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a main shipping route for Gulf oil, at the weekend and threatened that the ships would explode, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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The Pentagon Monday criticized a published article that said it is mounting reconnaissance missions inside Iran to identify potential nuclear and other targets.
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The U.S. military showed on Monday what it said was further evidence of Iranian-made weapons being used by Iraqi militants, including explosives linked to sophisticated roadside bombs.
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An alleged threat to blow up US ships   may not have come from Iranian speedboats, US navy sources say.
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Iran dismissed on Sunday U.S. naval war games on its doorstep as a morale-boosting exercise for American soldiers, days after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a show of military muscle.