Iran fires warning shots across bow of cargo ship: Pentagon
Pentagon said the cargo ship has been boarded by Iranians, but no one has been injured and no Americans are involved. (Source: Express Archive)
A Pentagon official said that Iranian patrol vessels have fired warning shots across the bridge of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel that was traversing the Strait of Hormuz in Iranian territorial waters.
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Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the cargo ship’s master had initially refused an Iranian order to move further into Iranian waters, but after the warning shots were fired the MV Maersk Tigris complied.
Warren said the cargo ship has been boarded by Iranians, but no one has been injured and no Americans are involved.
Warren said the cargo ship issued a distress call and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, based in the area, sent a U.S. destroyer and an aircraft to the area of the incident to monitor the situation.
The Marshall Islands are in the Pacific and were once governed by the United States
Source:: Indian Express
