Iran lies about evidence of confrontation

CNN:

Iran has denounced video and audio recordings released by the United States of the two nations' confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz as "fabricated," according to statements carried by state-run television station.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman downplayed the incident Wednesday, calling it "normal," state-run news agency IRNA reported. "The case ... was similar to the past ones and it was a regular and natural issue," Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said, IRNA reported.

And the state-run Press TV quoted a spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy as saying that the video "had been compiled using file pictures and the audio had been fabricated."

The Pentagon Tuesday released a four-minute, 20-second video of Sunday's incident, including video showing small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. In the audio recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ...You will explode after ... minutes." Video Watch the confrontation »

National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley warned Wednesday: "It's the kind of incident that can provoke exchange of fire. And we think the Iranians need to be on notice that they are fishing in troubled waters here."

Hadley, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as they flew with U.S. President George W Bush to Israel, said "it almost involved an exchange of fire between our forces and Iranian forces," but he stopped short of saying if the U.S. Navy would have fired the first shots.

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It could be an attempt to gauge US reaction to threats to its naval vessels, but when it coincides with missile attacks on Israel from Iran's proxies in Lebanon, it appears to have something to do with Iranian gamesmanship tied to the President's trip to Israel. Iran has always been weird about Israel and that it would act out because the President is visiting is not that surprising. Lying about the confrontation is also part and parcel of the religious bigots belief that it is OK to lie to the "infidels."

It is also not credible that Iran would mistake the US warships for something else. That is just another lie to downplay the seriousness of the game they were playing.

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