Absolutely superb article by Malcolm Nance, supplying the context and details of this naval encounter.

If such IRGC activity is a regular event I have two questions, do other navies have the problem (excluding Royal Navy) and is the activity ordered from the highest level of the Iranain government?

I now suspect the encounter only became public knowledge as the now identifed external speaker intervened, but this only was known after the "spin" doctors and politicians got involved raising the temperature.

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