{"id":1524954,"date":"2022-06-21T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524954"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:19:15","slug":"iranian-military-speedboat-targets-u-s-warship-while-biden-courts-iran-on-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-military-speedboat-targets-u-s-warship-while-biden-courts-iran-on-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Military Speedboat Targets U.S. Warship While Biden Courts Iran On Nuclear Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firanian-military-speedboat-targets-u-s-warship-while-biden-courts-iran-on-nuclear-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>While President Biden and his administration play footsie with Iran about its nuclear ambitions, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard military speedboat had a confrontation with a U.S. Navy warship on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Monday incident, on March 4, three Guard ships taunted Navy and U.S. Coast Guard vessels for two hours near the Persian Gulf, as a Guard\u2019s catamaran came within 25 yards of the USCGC Robert Goldman.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a high-speed Guard Boghammar, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat, sped directly toward the Cyclone-class patrol ship USS Sirocco and Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two U.S. Coast Guard cutters issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio and deployed warning flares,\u201d the Navy said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-navy-iran-tense-encounter-045605549.html\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sirocco repeatedly blows its horn at the Boghammar, which turns away as it closes in,\u201d the AP reported, adding, \u201cThe Navy said the Boghammar came within 50 yards (45 meters) of the Sirocco, raising the risk of the vessels running into each other. The overall encounter lasted about an hour, the Navy said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IRGCN\u2019s actions did not meet international standards of professional or safe maritime behavior, increasing the risk of miscalculation and collision,\u201d the U.S. Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/423388\/unsafe-unprofessional-action-irgcn-vessels-toward-us-naval-forces-arabian-gulf\">stated.<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At some point we should probably start talking about how the Biden administration spent 18 months letting Iran restore its economy and get to nuclear breakout, and now the Iranians are challenging our Navy. It&#39;s the second time in the last few months. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Euesexm6Ri\">https:\/\/t.co\/Euesexm6Ri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omriceren\/status\/1539188948702048257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Navy did not elaborate on why it did not announce the previous incident, particularly since a larger vessel came even closer to an American warship. However, that was just as a deal in Vienna between Iran and world powers on restoring the nuclear deal looked possible, before the talks broke down,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/us-navy-iran-have-tense-encounter-in-strait-of-hormuz\/2022\/06\/21\/872762be-f11e-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html\">the AP\u00a0<\/a>noted.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pompeo-says-biden-iran-talks-squandered-middle-east-stability\">blasted<\/a> Biden on Sunday vis-a-vis Iran, asserting, \u201cThe stability that we had built during our four years has now just been squandered and thrown away. They\u2019re putting us all at risk. \u2026 When you side with the Iranians, when you side with the world\u2019s largest state sponsor of terrorism, against Israel, and against Saudi Arabia, and against the Emirates, those leaders of those countries no longer have confidence in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran is now using 166 advanced IR-6 centrifuges at its underground Fordo facility to further enrich uranium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe development, which was contained in a United Nations nuclear watchdog report that was obtained by Reuters, comes after the overwhelming majority of nations on the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s (IAEA) Board of Governors condemned Iran for failing to explain why uranium traces were found at sites Iran did not disclose,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/iran-escalates-enrichment-at-underground-nuclear-facility-now-has-enough-material-for-weapon-reports\/\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIAEA inspectors verified on Saturday that Iran was ready to feed uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, the material centrifuges enrich, into the second of two cascades, or clusters, of IR-6 centrifuges installed at Fordow, a site dug into mountain\u201d Reuters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-prepares-enrichment-escalation-fordow-plant-iaea-report-shows-2022-06-20\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cIran informed the IAEA on Monday that passivation of the cascade, a process that precedes enrichment and also involves feeding UF6 into the machines, had begun on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While President Biden and his administration play footsie with Iran about its nuclear ambitions, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard military speedboat had a confrontation with a U.S. Navy warship on Monday. Prior to the Monday incident, on March 4, three Guard ships taunted Navy and U.S. Coast Guard vessels for two hours near the Persian Gulf, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1524956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}