Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz: Pentagon
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Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a main shipping route for Gulf oil, at the weekend and threatened that the ships would explode, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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Iran has brought its war games maneuvers over the past year into busy shipping lanes in the Straits of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which two-fifths of the world's oil supplies pass, the top U.S. Navy commander in the Mideast said.
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Five Iranian boats harassed three US navy ships at the weekend with a threat to blow them up, US officials say.
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Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday.
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The U.S. navy began war games on Iran's doorstep on Thursday, navy officials said, a day after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a dramatic daytime show of military muscle.
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The Pentagon on Monday criticized a  published report that said it was mounting reconnaissance  missions inside Iran to identify potential nuclear and other  targets.
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VIENNA, Austria - A U.S. official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons-related test site in Iran and accused the U.N...
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Iran accused the United States on  Wednesday of trying to disrupt its nuclear negotiations with  the European Union and again warned it would respond to any  threat.
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NATO has intercepted Iranian weapons shipments to Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, providing evidence Iran is violating international law to aid a group it once considered a bitter enemy, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards say the US faked evidence that its ships were harassed by Iranian speedboats.
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Iran on Wednesday called video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian Revolutionary Guards boats confronting U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz "fabricated"
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The United States protested formally to the Iranian government on Thursday over an incident in which Iranian speedboats confronted U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
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American officials fear that commercial investments in Iraqi power plants could mask military activities by Iran.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister urged the United States and Iran on Wednesday to show restraint after this weekend's naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf and warned of the grave consequences of such incidents.
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The US government reiterated its&quot;serious concerns&quot; about Iran&#39;s missile program on Tuesday, claiming it is a threat to regional peace and American interests.
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The White House on Tuesday emphasized diplomacy over potential military action against Iran -- just a day after a top naval commander questioned the intentions behind Iran's recent exercises in the Persian Gulf.
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Five Iranian boats took aggressive actions around three U.S. naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, an official said.