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Iranian Navy fires at, boards commercial container ship, US warship en route

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Iranian Navy vessels fired shots at and boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged commercial container ship in the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, a senior defense official told Fox News.

The Maersk Tigris ship -- originally heading to Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates, is now being escorted by the Iranian Navy into waters near Bandar Abbas, home of Iran’s largest Navy base.

The USS Farragut, a guided missile destroyer, is making “best speed” en route to the area and has dispatched a helicopter to get a closer look, the official said.

Here we go, time to use some of that Navy muscle.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04...ors_picks=true

Back to the stoneage with them if they cant play nice.

No news. Looks like the U.S. is uncertain.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/wa...=0&item=194731

Or getting forces into position....?

The borders in that are are in dispute.

The best thing is not to over react and see what happens. Most likely, as in the past, the Iranians will release the shop and their crew.

According to the Danish news it is something about Iran had some money unpaid by the Danish shipping company.

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