For the second day in a row, US warships and Iranian patrol  boats tangled in the Persian Gulf with the incident on Wednesday resulting in warning shots fired at the Iranian vessel. On Tuesday, 4 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps craft buzzed around several US patrol vessels, conducting what was described as a "high speed intercept" of at least one American warship. The IRGC patrol boats came within 300 yards and were warned numerous times before moving away. The confrontation on Wednesday was between the USS Nitze and a lone IRGC patrol boat. Reuters: A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week. "They did feel compelled ultimately to fire three warning shots and the reason for that is... they had taken steps already to try and de-escalate this situation," spokesman...(Read Full Post)