IRGC says the US video of Sunday's incident in Hormuz Strait involving Iran patrol boats and US ships is archive footage and the audio is fake.
A member of the Navy Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) told Press TV on Wednesday that the footage released by the US Navy had been compiled using file pictures and the audio had been fabricated.
Earlier Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said the incident was a normal identification request by the Iranian side.
Hosseini explained that exchanging messages to identify ships in the Persian Gulf is routine.
Washington earlier claimed that IRGC speedboats harassed three US Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.
The US Navy later released footage purportedly showing Iranian boats menacing US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf.
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"US Navy image shows a small craft suspected to be from the Iranian ... - Yahoo! News Photos
"THIS was what scared three US warships?
Either this is a hoax, or the Navy isn't what it used to be.
Note the absence of any flags or markings. For all we know this is a photo of three drunk Texans in Galveston Bay." -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
Probably was!
