The helicopter — an AH-1Z Viper — is attached to a unit deployed on the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship, which was sent to the region as part of American efforts to deter seizures of commercial tanker ships by Tehran.
Iranian "vessels shone a laser multiple times at the aircraft while in flight" on Wednesday, front man Commander Rick Chernitzer says in a statement.
"These are not the actions of a professional maritime force. This unsafe, unprofessional, and irresponsible behavior by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy risks US and partner nation lives and needs to cease immediately," Chernitzer adds.
The US military says Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
has either seized or attempted to take control of nearly 20 internationally flagged ships in the region over the past two years.
There have been a series of such incidents since then-US president Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic
Republic.