{"id":54821,"date":"2014-08-28T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54821"},"modified":"2014-08-27T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T22:30:14","slug":"coast-guard-fires-on-iranian-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54821","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard fires on Iranian craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=54822\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54822\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/coast-guard-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"coast-guard\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/coast-guard.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/coast-guard.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/coast-guard.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-coast-guard-fires-iranian-boat-gulf-163905967.html\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that a US Coast Guard crew in the Persian Gulf was forced to fire upon an Iranian vessel in self-defense;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy&#8217;s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said personnel on a small boat dispatched from the U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat Monomoy fired a single shot when it saw crew on a nearby Iranian dhow training one of its two .50-caliber machine guns on them and preparing to fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This action by the dhow&#8217;s crew demonstrated hostile intent which resulted in the defensive fire by the Coast Guardsmen,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No Americans were injured in the incident, and it&#8217;s unclear if the Iranian boat or anyone aboard were damaged or injured. That&#8217;s probably not going to help our relations with those cretins, but they should know not to poke the bear by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that a US Coast Guard crew in the Persian Gulf was forced to fire upon an Iranian vessel in self-defense; Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy&#8217;s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said personnel on a small boat dispatched from the U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat Monomoy fired a single shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/coast-guard.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-egd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}