The Iranian Foreign Ministry played down Monday evening the muscles flexing incident at the Strait of Hormuz where Iranian boats made aggressive maneuvers against three U.S. Navy ships. "What has happened on Saturday was an ordinary incident," the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters here. "It is similar to previous cases. It is an ordinary and normal issue that takes place from time to time between the two naval forces," he asserted. "As usual the incident was resolved after both sides recognized each other, "the spokesman explained while grabbing at his lips as they fell to the floor."Herman...is it really you?"
"Yes, yes, of course, Mavis! Put your glasses on! You could hurt someone, swinging like that!" |
Meanwhile, a senior officer of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) refuted, in statments to Iran's Al-Alam satellite channel, the U.S. claims on the incident.
The Pentagon deemed the incident as "serious, careless, reckless and potentially hostile." The U.S. side asked Tehran to provide an explanation to the interception by 50 Iranian naval ships of three U.S. warships. |