Iran claims video of Gulf naval confrontation was fabricated

IRAN accused the United States yesterday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting US warships in the Persian Gulf.

The video from Sunday’s incident shows small Iranian boats swarming around US warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, “I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes.”

“The footage released by the US Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated,” an official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said.