Video released Saturday shows the moment last
month when an Iranian Navy ship fired unguided rockets in close
proximity to an American aircraft carrier and an American destroyer.
The Dec. 26 incident prompted
U.S. military commanders to criticize Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps Navy for its "highly provocative" actions.
The footage — from the perspective of the
viewfinder — reveals how the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRCGN)
blasted several rockets near a cluster of coalition and commercial
ships, according to U.S. Navy Central Command.
Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Harry S. Truman steams underway on March 29, 2003 in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. U.S. Navy / Getty Images File
The ships, including the USS Harry S. Truman and
the USS Bulkeley, were crossing international waters in the Strait of
Hormuz when the IRCGN conducted the live-fire exercise, U.S. Central
Command said in a statement.
The rockets landed about 1,500 yards away from
the ships, according to the statement. The IRGCN vessels announced the
exercise over maritime radio 23 minutes before it began, the statement
added.
Nobody from Iran's foreign or defense ministries
gave official comment immediately following the exercise, but the
country's state-run news agency, Fars, said in a report about the event
that no vessel was in danger.
"Firing weapons so close to passing coalition
ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognized
maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional, and inconsistent with
international maritime law," U.S. Central Command said in a previous
statement.
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