US ship fires 30 warning shots at Iranian fast boats in latest tense encounter

A US Coast Guard ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Footage released by the Department of Defense showed the US vessels blaring their horns in warning to the Iranian fast boats.
This is the second time within the last month that US military vessels have had to fire warning shots because of what they said was unsafe behavior by Iranian vessels in the region, after a relative lull in such interactions over the past year.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the warning shots were fired after the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards (450ft) of six US military vessels, including the USS Monterey, that were escorting the guided-missile submarine Georgia.
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