MANAMA, Bahrain The commander of the Navys Fifth Fleet was in his office on the afternoon of July 25 when he got the phone call: An Iranian Navy frigate in the Gulf of Aden had approached a ship where an American military helicopter had just landed. Crew members on the Iranian ship pointed a heavy machine gun at the American helicopter, an alarming ...

[caption id="attachment_28199" align="alignright" width="300"] A US Naval vessel and helicopter in the Persian Gulf[/caption] A top US commander says a naval exercise involving 41 countries in the Persian Gulf is not directed at Iran and described the maneuvers as "purely defensive." Vice Admiral John Miller, commander of the US Fifth Fleet, made ...