{"id":2184,"date":"2008-01-12T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T10:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-navy-withdraws-claims-against-iran\/2184\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T10:16:06","slug":"us-navy-withdraws-claims-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-navy-withdraws-claims-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy withdraws claims against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>The US Navy withdraws the allegation that Iranian patrol boats had threatened to blow up a three-ship US convoy in the Hormuz Strait. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could have been a threat aimed at some other nation or a myriad of other things,&#8221; The Washington Post quoted US Navy spokesman Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV as saying on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This is while senior US Navy sources have told the BBC that an alleged threat to blow up the US warships &#8216;may not have come&#8217; from Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon alleged five Iranian boats belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had harassed three US Navy warships by threatening to &#8216;blow them up&#8217; on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one in the military has said that the transmission emanated from those boats,&#8221; said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.<\/p>\n<p>However, President Bush characterized the incident as &#8216;provocative&#8217; and &#8216;dangerous&#8217;, warning Iran of serious consequences if it happens again.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials have dismissed the allegation saying the incident was a routine maritime identification check, which is common between vessels in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=38370&amp;sectionid=351020101\">MD\/RE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy withdraws the allegation that Iranian patrol boats had threatened to blow up a three-ship US convoy in the Hormuz Strait. &#8220;It could have been a threat aimed at some other nation or a myriad of other things,&#8221; The Washington Post quoted US Navy spokesman Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV as saying on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-2184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}