Samuel B. Roberts, a frigate, hit an Iranian naval mine while sailing in the Persian Gulf. Four days later, the U.S. Navy destroyed half the Iranian fleet in a matter of hours. Iran’s piratical regime is back yet again to its piratical ways. The Iranian boats are familiar to the U.S. Navy after decades of observing them at close range. And staging deniable attacks that fall just below the threshold of open warfare on the U.S. is an Iranian specialty.

Source: International New York Times June 14, 2019 23:48 UTC