Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz: Pentagon
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Five Iranian boats made aggressive maneuvers and showed hostile intent towards three U.S. Navy ships at the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route in the Gulf, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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Even as Iran and the U.S. face off bitterly, Navy commanders in the Persian Gulf are working quietly to keep communications open with Iran's military, hoping the contact will avert an accidental stumble into armed confrontation.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister urged the United States and Iran on Wednesday to show restraint after this weekend's naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf and warned of the grave consequences of such incidents.
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President George W. Bush on Sunday visited the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet amid new tensions with Iran over an incident in which the United States says its ships were harassed in the Strait of Hormuz.
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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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The U.S. military reported Monday on a "significant" confrontation involving five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats that "harrassed and provoked" three U.S. naval ships in international waters over the weekend.
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American officials claim 'serious provocation' from Iranian vessels at sea
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The United States is concerned over reports that Iranian-made weapons are crossing the Afghan border and reaching Islamist Taliban insurgents, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.
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Reports suggest that Iranian gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday.
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Iran charged Sunday that the United States was trying to spread anti-Iranian sentiment in the Mideast by accusing Iranian boats of threatening U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
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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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The United States faces a range of  threats from North Korean and Iranian missiles to a Sept.  11-scale attack by Islamist militants, inspired by Osama bin  Laden and hardened by their experience in Iraq, top U.S.  intelligence officials warned on Wednesday.
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The secretarys of state and defense have expressed concerns over Iran's attempt to shape Iraq's future.
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Iranian video shows apparently routine activity by Iranian patrol boats, while Pentagon officials say radio threat may not have been from Iranian forces.
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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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Iran's Revolutionary Guards test fired missiles in wargames on Thursday which a commander said could sink "big warships" in the Gulf, Sea of Oman and the north of the Indian Ocean, the state broadcaster said.
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American officials claim 'serious provocation' from Iranian warships at sea