US Navy dispatches destroyer after Iran 'fires warnings shots and boards cargo ship'

[Indus Falcon]

The shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Gulf, are only six miles wide and within range of Iranian missiles.(Photo: NASA/AP)

 

[Hack-Hook]

Iran has a history of randomly attacking things though...

not randomly , only the ships that were carrying Iraqi oil.

 

[Aramagedon]

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The shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Arabian Gulf, are only six miles wide and within range of Iranian missiles.(Photo: NASA/AP)

Reported.

 

[Hack-Hook]

The shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, are only six miles wide and within range of Iranian missiles.(Photo: NASA/AP)

Fixed for you

 

[Indus Falcon]

Fixed for you

Sorry it's Arabian Gulf!

 

[Aramagedon]

Sorry it's Arabian Gulf!

 

[PlanetWarrior]

If the owners of the ship were owing money to an Iranian company and if the ship was in Iranian waters, there isn't anything illegal or malicious in the Iranians confiscating the ship with a court order. So why is the USA making a big deal of Iranian authorities conducting an internationally accepted maritime practice ?

 

[Hack-Hook]

Sorry it's Arabian Gulf!

well sorry for you but only two side matters in this discussion
(Iran and UN) and I'm sorry but both of them acknowledge Persian Gulf.

 

[Aramagedon]

well sorry for you but only two side matters in this discussion
(Iran and UN) and I'm sorry but both of them acknowledge Persian Gulf.

99% of historical maps have written "Persian gulf" (1% of them have written Britain gulf!) Moreover prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has called it Persian gulf and almost no one have called it anything else than Persian gulf before 40 years ago.

I don't know why when these Pakistanis go to an Arab country become Arab. UAE even did not exist before 1971.