Iranian boats "provoke" US Navy ships in Hormuz: CNN
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Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday.
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Iran on Monday confirmed there was an "incident" between Iranian and U.S. ships but gave no details, an Iranian news agency reported, after Washington said Iranian vessels threatened their ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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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's Revolutionary Guards launched two days of war games on Wednesday in the Gulf and Sea of Oman, state media reported.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards test-fired missiles on Thursday that a commander said could sink "big warships" in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, the state broadcaster said.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards test fired missiles on Monday at the start of three days of military exercises that will be staged across the country, the second round of manoeuvres this month, state media reported.
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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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Prankster known as Filipino Monkey suspected of sparking confrontation between US and Iranian ships
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On the eve of President Bush's Middle East trip, five Iranian patrol boats charged at three U.S. Navy ships entering the Persian Gulf Sunday in what the Pentagon described as a "serious" provocation.
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The U.S. military accused Iran on Sunday of smuggling surface-to-air missiles and other advanced weapons into Iraq for use against American troops. The new allegations came as Iraqi leaders condemned the latest U.S. detention of an Iranian in northern Iraq, saying the man was in their country on official business.
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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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American Naval forces were involved in two high-profile, but apparently unrelated, incidents in the Persian Gulf region since Sunday:
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The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Gulf as a warning to Iran, CBS News reported on Monday.
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Iran on Sunday test-fired a surface-to-surface short-range missile a day after its army launched large-scale military exercises throughout the country, state-run television reported.
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The war of words between United States and Tehran continued today, with President Bush repeating his assertion that Iran is "a threat to world peace." The two countries have been trading accusations since a weekend incident involving Iranian boats and U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - A U.S. Navy warship attacked a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia, CNN reported, and residents said on Saturday missiles had pounded hills where foreign jihadists fled after clashing with locals.
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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.