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Article: Iranian boats in threat to Devonport warship ; Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats menaced the Devonport-based warship HMS Chatham as weapons tests ordered by the Tehran regime to deter strikes on its nuclear weapons facilities raised tension in the Gulf, it can be revealed.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats menaced the Devonport-
based warship HMS Chatham as weapons tests ordered by the Tehran
regime to deter strikes on its nuclear weapons facilities raised
tension in the Gulf, it can be revealed.
The encounter occurred as the Type-22 frigate patrolled the same
waters where sister ship HMS Cornwall suffered the kidnapping and
detention of 15 of her sailors and Marines in spring 2007.
Some 16 months on, Westcountry servicemen and women are still
going eyeball-to-eyeball with the Revolutionary Guards on an almost
daily basis. In last week's incident, Iranian speedboats came
within a few hundred yards of the frigate as the latter patrolled on
the edge of ...