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http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2239119,00.html
People, if this banking mess accelerates, do not discount the very real possibility of a “new” war.
The admission by the US Navy that Iranian speedboats might not have been the source of an apparent threat to attack American ships in the Gulf is a significant move that raises new fears about the chances of unintended clashes in the region.
Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early on Monday as a serious threat to US ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea", new information over the past three days suggests the incident did not involve such a threat and that no US commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats.
The new information that appears to contradict the original version of the incident includes the revelation that US officials spliced the audio recording of an alleged Iranian threat onto to a videotape of the incident. That suggests that the threatening message may not have come in immediately after the initial warning to Iranian boats from a US warship, as it appears to do on the video.
The new information that appears to contradict the original version of the incident includes the revelation that US officials spliced the audio recording of an alleged Iranian threat onto to a videotape of the incident. That suggests that the threatening message may not have come in immediately after the initial warning to Iranian boats from a US warship, as it appears to do on the video.
Several news sources reported that senior navy officials had conceded that the voice threatening to blow up the US warships in a matter of minutes could have come from another ship in the region, or even from shore.
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