{"id":267225,"date":"2016-09-13T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-threatened-to-shoot-down-us-military-planes-us-official-claims\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:26:52","slug":"iran-threatened-to-shoot-down-us-military-planes-us-official-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/iran-threatened-to-shoot-down-us-military-planes-us-official-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatened to shoot down US military planes, US official claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran threatened to shoot down US Navy EP-3 and P-8 aircraft over the weekend as they were flying in the northern Persian Gulf, a US military official has claimed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US military planes were flying in international airspace but &#8220;near Iranian airspace,\u201d CNN reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the unnamed official, Iranian naval forces warned the aircraft not to enter the country\u2019s airspace and risk being shot down by Iranian missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The planes finally did not enter Iranian airspace and proceeded without untoward incident.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Pentagon claimed that an American warship patrolling in the central Persian Gulf changed its course after a speedboat operated by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) came within 100 yards (91 meters) of it.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said on September 6 that the Iranian vessel had sailed directly in front of the USS Firebolt.<\/p>\n<p>A US military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also claimed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/09\/13\/484472\/Iran-threat-US-military-planes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran threatened to shoot down US Navy EP-3 and P-8 aircraft over the weekend as they were flying in the northern Persian Gulf, a US military official has claimed. The US military planes were flying in international airspace but &#8220;near Iranian airspace,\u201d CNN reported on Tuesday. According to the unnamed official, Iranian naval forces warned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267225","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=267225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}