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A comparable incident had not occurred until the end of April.
Now warships from the United States and boats from Iran have clashed again.
In the Strait of Hormuz, a US ship fired dozens of warning shots against speedboats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The Strait of Hormuz is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and a bottleneck for shipping in the region.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Monday that 13 Iranian speedboats had approached a fleet of a US submarine and six escort ships at great speed.
The boats came to about 140 meters and only turned when one of the US ships fired around 30 warning shots.
Such an approach by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is "not a new phenomenon," said Kirby.
“It's unsafe, it's unprofessional.
It is such acts that can lead to someone being injured and it can lead to real miscalculations in this region. "The Pentagon spokesman stressed that the US warships have the right to self-defense -" and they know how be able to exercise it «.
Tensions between US ships and Iranian ships keep coming up in the region.
In late April, US warships fired warning shots as Iranian boats approached them.
The speedboats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had approached the US ships "USS Firebolt" and "Baranoff" within 62 meters, the US Navy said at the time.
The crews of the US ships first warned the Iranian boats by radio and loudspeaker.
When they got closer, the crew of the "USS Firebolt" finally fired warning shots.
Negotiations in Vienna are proceeding
Recently, the talks about the Iranian nuclear program had started to move.
From Washington's point of view, the nuclear deal with Iran, which has been suspended for years, could soon be revived.
The previous rounds of talks in Vienna have been "productive," said a senior US State Department employee at the end of last week.
The 2015 agreement is designed to prevent Iran from gaining the ability to build an atomic bomb.
The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018 under President Donald Trump.
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