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  2. Operation Praying Mantis - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the operation, US Marines and US Navy ships and aircraft had destroyed Iranian naval and intelligence facilities on two inoperable oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, and sunk at least three armed Iranian Boghammer speedboats, one Iranian frigate, and one fast attack missile boat. One other Iranian frigate was damaged in the battle ...

  3. 2016 U.S.–Iran naval incident - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. Navy riverine command boat in the Persian Gulf in 2013. On January 12, 2016, two United States Navy riverine command boats (RCBs) cruising from Kuwait to Bahrain with a combined crew of nine men and one woman on board strayed into Iranian territorial waters [5] which extend three nautical miles around Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf.

  4. List of current ships of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy

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    Iran IRIS Deylaman: 78: 2023 1,500 tons Frigate: Northern Fleet: Iran Corvettes (3) Bayandor class: IRIS Bayandor: 81: 1964: 900 tons Corvette: Southern Fleet: United States IRIS Naghdi: 82: 1964 900 tons Corvette: Southern Fleet: United States Undergoing Overhaul as of 2025 Hamzeh class: IRIS Hamzeh: 802: 1936: 539 tons Corvette: Northern ...

  5. Iran TV airs footage of commandos seizing US-bound tanker - AOL

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    Masked Iranian navy commandos conducted a helicopter-borne raid to seize a U.S.-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, footage aired by Iran's state television showed Friday. The capture on ...

  6. Islamic Republic of Iran Navy - Wikipedia

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    In September 2019, the head of the Iran navy said it was ready to defend its marine borders, and denied US and Saudi claims that Iran had orchestrated recent attacks on Saudi oil sites. [32] On November 20, 2019, Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Iran's navy had sent a fleet of 64 ships to the Gulf of Aden to "safeguard Iran's ...

  7. US Navy says Iran Revolutionary Guard fast-attack boats ...

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    The U.S. Navy said Monday its sailors and the United Kingdom Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Revolutionary Guard “harassed” it. Three fast ...

  8. Iran goes public with stark warning over suspected spy ship ...

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    The video came after national security adviser Jake Sullivan refused to rule out strikes inside Iran after the retaliatory attacks on the country’s proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen over the ...

  9. 2021 U.S.–Iran naval incident - Wikipedia

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    [11] US officials denied the Iranian account and said there had been no American aimed at seizing a tanker. [2] The U.S. officials said that Iranian forces had actually seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month while "two U.S. navy ships, backed by air support, had monitored the situation, but did not try to interdict the vessel."