{"id":2007058,"date":"2023-08-21T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-denies-supposed-incident-with-iranian-navy-in-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T14:55:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:55:41","slug":"pentagon-denies-supposed-incident-with-iranian-navy-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-denies-supposed-incident-with-iranian-navy-in-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon refutes alleged incident involving Iranian navy in Strait of Hormuz."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fpentagon-denies-supposed-incident-with-iranian-navy-in-strait-of-hormuz%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=2007058&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--><h2>The Department of \u200bDefense \u2063Denies Iranian Reports of Incident with U.S. Forces<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Defense has firmly \u2064denied \u200breports from Iran regarding an \u200calleged incident between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy and U.S. forces in the region. The\u200d IRGC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-eradicating-extremism-training-black-lives-matter-is-not-politically-partisan-in-nature\/\" title=\"Navy \u2018Eradicating Extremism\u2019 Training: Black Lives Matter Is \u2018Not Politically Partisan In Nature\u2019\">navy released<\/a> a video over the weekend, claiming to show its forces intercepting the USS Bataan and the USS Thomas Hudner near the Strait of \u2063Hormuz on Thursday. However, a\u2063 Pentagon spokeswoman has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marilyn-manson-denies-evan-rachel-woods-abuse-allegations-gets-dropped-from-record-label\/\" title=\"Marilyn Manson Denies Evan Rachel Wood\u2019s Abuse Allegations, Gets Dropped From Record Label\">categorically denied<\/a> the occurrence of any such incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI saw those reports. That is not\u200d true. I believe what you\u2019re referring to is that they had forced\u200c one of our aircraft \u2064\u2014 that report \u2062is not true,&#8221; deputy \u2064Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said \u200con\u200c Monday. &#8220;I don\u2019t know\u200c where that\u2019s \u2062coming from, but we\u2019ve seen this \u200dfrom them before pushing out, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s propaganda but I would say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-mayor-who-triggered-entire-command-force-to-quit-sued-by-chief-she-fired\/\" title=\"Democrat Mayor Who Triggered Entire Command Force To Quit Sued By Chief She Fired\u00a0\">untrue statements<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Singh\u200b admitted that \u200cshe \u2062had not seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-bombshell-stories-censored-by-big-tech\/\" title=\"4 Bombshell Stories Censored By Big Tech\">video published<\/a> by the IRGC, \u2063but she \u2063reiterated her stance that no such \u2064incident took place last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen the\u2064 video,&#8221; she\u2062 said. &#8220;But I can just tell you the reports that there was some type of\u200b intercept of\u2062 a \u200dU.S. helicopter is just not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. military has increased its presence in the \u2062region due to heightened \u200bIranian aggression in the maritime\u2062 environment. In early August, over 3,000 U.S. sailors and Marines from the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and 26th Marine Expeditionary\u2062 Unit arrived in the Middle East to reinforce the existing\u200c U.S. presence in the area. Iran has been \u200dinvolved in attacks, seizures, or attempted\u200c seizures of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-denies-supposed-incident-with-iranian-navy-in-strait-of-hormuz\/\" title=\"Pentagon refutes alleged incident involving Iranian navy in Strait of Hormuz.\">approximately 20 internationally flagged\u200c merchant vessels<\/a> in the region over the\u200b past two \u200cyears.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. \u200bGen. Hossein Salami, \u200bthe commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, addressed IRGC commanders in Tehran over the weekend, stating, \u201cToday, the US is declining more than ever, and the enemy is at the\u2063 peak of \u2064its weakness.\u201d He attributed this achievement\u2063 to the wisdom \u200band tactfulness of the Leader, as well as \u200cthe efforts and perseverance of \u2063the Islamic Ummah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense refutes Iran&#8217;s claims of a confrontation between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy and U.S. forces. Iran&#8217;s navy shared a video suggesting their interception of USS Bataan and USS Thomas Hudner near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. 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