US formally protests Iranian harassment of its warships
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The United States has lodged a formal diplomatic protest with Iran over a weekend incident in which Iranian speedboats harassed US warships in the Persian Gulf's Hormuz Strait, the State Department said Thursday.
The protest, which reiterates earlier US complaints about the ''provocative'' action, was sent to the Iranian Foreign Ministry through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which looks after US interests in Iran, deputy spokesman Tom Casey told reporters. He could not say whether the Iranians had received and acknowledged receipt of the protest. (AP)
