Iran has backed off provocation against US ship
AP:
I suspect that Iran came to this conclusion because they see someone not to be trifled with and also as someone looking for an excuse to pull out of the nuke deal.
Iranian naval forces appear to have deliberately halted their provocations of U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf in recent months, a U.S. military official said Thursday.There is more.
According to Navy Cmdr. William Urban, spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, there have been no “unsafe and unprofessional” actions by Iranian naval forces in the Gulf since August 2017.
Prior to that, Iranian vessels had periodically made high-speed approaches to U.S. ships that were considered dangerous provocations.
Urban declined to speculate on the reason for the change.
“It seems like they’ve absolutely made a conscious decision to give us more space,” he said. “That is definitely a change in their behavior.”
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I suspect that Iran came to this conclusion because they see someone not to be trifled with and also as someone looking for an excuse to pull out of the nuke deal.
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