(Reuters) Sami Aboudi - U.S. Navy commanders accused Iran of jeopardizing international navigation by "harassing" warships in the Strait of Hormuz. Two sets of Iranian Navy fast-attack boats approached a U.S.-led, five-vessel flotilla including the U.S. aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush as it entered the Strait on Tuesday. The aircraft carrier sent helicopter gunships to hover over the Iranian speedboats. The Iranian boats "were in the middle of international transit waters (while) we had a right to be there as we were exercising freedom of navigation on our way into the Arabian Gulf," said Rear Admiral Kenneth Whitesell, commander of the Carrier Strike Group. "They also had weapons uncovered [and]...had some of the weapons manned. We also have aerial data that they were arming all of these weapons."
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