The event happens at a time when the US military presence in the area has grown to protect trade lines and deal with aviation threats, and tensions between Washington and Tehran have reached a new level.
In response to recent events, Gen. Brad Cooper, the head of CENTCOM, said that Iran’s ongoing threats and problems in international waters and airspace will no longer be accepted. Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for CENTCOM, talked about the two military incidents that happened today. The report says that on February 3, an American F-35C fighter shot it down when an Iranian Shahed-139 drone in invasion mode flew near the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
The ship was 500 miles off the southern coast of Iran, and the drone kept moving forward even as the U.S. tried to calm things down. No American soldiers or equipment were hurt in the incident. Hours after the first incident, tensions rose to the Strait of Hormuz, as the IRGC Navy used two speedboats and a migrant UAV to threaten the American-flagged commercial oil tanker “Stena Imperative.
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