Source on Telegram posted that several IRGC boats were engaged in unspecified activity in the Strait of Hormuz, while a US ship broadcast a warning message in Persian to tell them to cease operations and return to port or the US Navy would attack them

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Source on Telegram posted that several IRGC boats were engaged in unspecified activity in the Strait of Hormuz, while a US ship broadcast a warning message in Persian to tell them to cease operations and return to port or the US Navy would attack them

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At 03:18 on Thursday morning, several IRGC boats were engaged in unspecified activity in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US ship broadcasts a warning message in Persian on the radio, saying:“The Islamic Republic has no control over the Strait, cease operations and return to port, or the US Navy will attack your ship.”

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