Iran Threatens U.S. Warships In International Waters Of Hormuz Strait

Washington, DC (AHN) - There was reportedly an incident involving harassment of United States warships by Iran in the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

U.S. officials say that three U.S. Navy war ships were harassed and provoked by five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats.

The Iranians made threatening moves, advancing their boats toward the U.S. warships while also making threats over radio transmissions.

On one of the radio transmissions the Revolutionary Guard said, "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes," U.S. officials told CNN.

At that point the U.S. warships manned their gun stations and almost fired on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats before the Iranians stopped advancing and turned away.

This all happened in outside of Iranian territorial waters in international waters in the Persian Gulf, which all nations are free to use.

It is also a strategic water way through which much of the world's oil passes through on its way out of many oil producing states to the rest of the world.