US Military Official: Iran Naval Forces Halt 'Provocations'

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.  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...

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