Iranian warship ‘points weapon’ at U.S. helicopter

Home World Iranian warship ‘points weapon’ at U.S. helicopter 05-08-2015 09:35 PM Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - An Iranian warship briefly pointed weapons on its deck at a U.S. military helicopter and coalition warship two weeks ago in the Gulf of Aden, according to U.S media outlets. The reports said the two ships were just a few hundred yards apart on July 25 when Iranian crewmembers pointed what are believed to be on-deck machine guns at the warship and the U.S. military helicopter that had just landed on that coalition ship's deck, CNN quoted a defense official. It added that the coalition warship and helicopter crew quickly noticed there was a cameraman standing right behind one of the Iranian gunners. "Were they just trying to get cool pictures pointing at us? Were they making a propaganda film? Was some guy taking pictures to send to his girlfriend? We don't know," the Defense official said. The entire incident lasted about a minute with no shots being fired and no action taken by the coalition warship. The U.S. helicopter stuck to its plan as well and left the deck on schedule, the official said. The official declined to identify the nationality of the coalition warship but said the Iranian warship was a regular Iranian Navy Vosper-class frigate. In a statement released early Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Navy characterized the interaction as "unsafe and unprofessional." The U.S. Navy took photos of the incident but has not publicly released them. *Al Arabiya

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Iranian warship ‘points weapon’ at U.S. helicopter

05-08-2015 09:35 PM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - An Iranian warship briefly pointed weapons on its deck at a U.S. military helicopter and coalition warship two weeks ago in the Gulf of Aden, according to U.S media outlets.

The reports said the two ships were just a few hundred yards apart on July 25 when Iranian crewmembers pointed what are believed to be on-deck machine guns at the warship and the U.S. military helicopter that had just landed on that coalition ship's deck, CNN quoted a defense official.

It added that the coalition warship and helicopter crew quickly noticed there was a cameraman standing right behind one of the Iranian gunners. "Were they just trying to get cool pictures pointing at us? Were they making a propaganda film? Was some guy taking pictures to send to his girlfriend? We don't know," the Defense official said.

The entire incident lasted about a minute with no shots being fired and no action taken by the coalition warship. The U.S. helicopter stuck to its plan as well and left the deck on schedule, the official said. The official declined to identify the nationality of the coalition warship but said the Iranian warship was a regular Iranian Navy Vosper-class frigate.

In a statement released early Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Navy characterized the interaction as "unsafe and unprofessional." The U.S. Navy took photos of the incident but has not publicly released them.

*Al Arabiya

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