Strait of Hormuz 0
7 October 2021

The IRGC released footage purporting to show “an encounter between its speedboats and two U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf”, wherein “the speedboats chase after the American vessels until they leave the area”. A U.S. military spokesperson was cited as saying “he wasn’t aware of any sort of unsafe interaction with Iran in the last two days”.

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