U.S.-Iran naval confrontation in Gulf raises tensions
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While the US State Department demands an explanation, Iran's Foreign Ministry calls the incident 'normal.'
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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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A U.S. navy show of force on Iran's doorstep is "greatly alarming" for the region and the United States risked a bloody quagmire if it invaded Iran, a state-run Afghan newspaper said on Saturday.
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U.S. President George W. Bush warned Iran on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if it attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf.
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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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The U.S. navy began war games on Iran's doorstep on Thursday, navy officials said, a day after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a dramatic daytime show of military muscle.
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The US secretary of state denounces alleged threats by Iranian boats against the US navy 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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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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'Filipino Monkey' strikes again Analysis Those readers who follow the non-IT'n'Paris news will be aware that in recent days a group of US warships almost fired on fast boats operated by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This was after hearing radio transmissions in which the Iranians appeared to threaten some form of attack.â¦
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The US yesterday publicly accused Iran of intervening in the Iraq conflict, claiming that its Revolutionary Guard played a role in an attack that killed five Americans and was using Lebanese militants to train Iraqi insurgents.
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In the wake of the Iraq invasion, there has been a faint but growing drumbeat sounded in Washington by officials who believe the Bush administration should now confront another member of its so-called &quot;axis of evil&quot; -- Iran.
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While American officials have increasingly accused Iran of interfering in Iraq, from Iranâs perspective it is the United States that is meddling in its backyard.
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BAGHDAD -- A US military spokesman accused Iranian leaders yesterday of using guerrillas from Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to train militiamen fighting American troops in Iraq and to organize attacks, including a January ambush on an Iraqi-US outpost that killed five American soldiers.
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The United States and Gulf Arab states  are discussing ways of pressuring Iran over a perceived threat  from Tehran's nuclear and missile program, the top U.S.  diplomat in charge of disarmament said Sunday.
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Five Iranian boats took aggressive actions around three U.S. naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, an official said.
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Citing Iranian involvement with Iraqi militias and Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the Bush administration has shifted to offense in its confrontation with Iran &#151; building up the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf and promising more aggressive moves against Iranian operatives in Iraq and Lebanon.