NBC: Iran conducted target practice in dangerous proximity to the US aircraft carrier “Harry Truman” – Kommersant

On Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz Iranian boats had a training firing missiles and a half kilometers from the US aircraft carrier “Harry Truman”, NBC reports with reference to two US military officials. The missiles were not aimed at the aircraft carrier, the US regarded the actions of Tehran as “baseless and provocative unsafe.”

According to the interlocutors NBC, «Harry Truman,” as were near the USS “Buckley” and a French frigate and a commercial vessel went into an internationally recognized corridor for shipping, without going into the territorial waters of any state. Iranian Navy on the radio warned early shooting practice, asking the captains of the ships’ derazhatsya aside ».

As previously wrote” Y “, the US aircraft carrier” Harry Truman “joined the operation of the international antiterrorist coalition against the “Islamic State” (IG, banned in Russia), according to “RIA Novosti” with reference to the press service of the US Navy. According to her, December 29 attack helicopters from the aircraft carrier made the first flight in the framework of “Operation Enduring commitment” aimed at the destruction of the IG. It is noted that the “Truman” joined the French aircraft carrier “Charles de Gaulle” in the conduct of joint operations in Iraq and Syria from the waters of the Persian Gulf.