10 January 2016•Update: 10 January 2016
WASHINGTON
The U.S. Navy has released a video purporting to show Iranian vessels firing rockets close by American warships, including the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, in the Strait of Hormuz.
The 30-second black-and-white video, released late on Saturday, was taken from an American Seahawk helicopter according to a navy caption provided to several U.S. media outlets through the country’s Freedom of Information Act.
The helicopter's forward-looking infrared footage read "an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) fast inshore attack craft (FIAC) fires several unguided rockets from within an internationally recognized maritime traffic lane in close proximity to USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), and the French Frigate FS Provenance (D 652), along with other commercial traffic, as the ships are transiting the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Gulf".
Both the USS Harry S. Truman and USS Bulkeley were deployed from Norfolk on Nov. 16, to launch airstrikes against Daesh.
The U.S. military originally made the incident public on Dec. 29 when a Central Command spokesman called the Iranian actions "highly provocative, unsafe and unprofessional" during a weekly briefing.
Tehran denied the claims made by the Pentagon calling it a false accusation "akin to psychological warfare"
