US Navy harassed

Okay the name of this article is just a little sarcastic, I hadn't had time to blog about it and decided that I pretty much had to, the US Navy was harrased last Sunday by five Iranian boat as they entered the Perisan Gulf, but the question is what really happened, their are two sides to the story.

Strait of Hormuz Incident

American Point of View

Three US Navy destroyers the USS Hopper (DDG-70), USS Port Royale (CG-73) and USS
Ingraham (FFG-61) were sailing through the Strait of Hormuz towards the Persian Gulf when
three Iranian boats coming towards them and a radio message broadcast to the US stating ""I am
coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes."

Fearing what they heard the US ships prepared to arm up and stop the threat and literally when
they began to do so the Iranian boats turned around and fled.

The Iranian boats had belonged to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and often behave a alot
more hostile than the regular Iranian navy.

Iranian Point of View

Iranian officials denied that the boats acted provocatively and offered varied descriptions of
the events, with one official saying the American ships approached and threatened the Iranian
boats, but the Iranian department of defence later stated that it was a case of mistaken identity.

Persian Gulf Incident

Not exactly an incident but we were told that it was an accident, two F/A-18 Superhornets
an F/A-18E and two-seater F/A-18F took off from the supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman and
later crashed in the Gulf, both planes had collided in mid-air but all three pilots were rescued
from the water by the Truman. The fighters were operating from Carrier Air Wing Three from
the Truman strike force and were providing "close air support from Iraq when they crashed."

There was no hostile fire when the fighters crashed and it was reported to be an accident.