Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on November 5 that they had thwarted attempts by U.S. Navy warships to hijack Iranian tankers. According to the Iranian description, at first the US military hijacked the Iranian oil tanker in an attempt to steal oil, and then violently expelled by the special forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and finally the US military shamefully instigated.
A statement from Iran's Revolutionary Guards said: "The U.S. terrorist navy's attempt to steal Iranian oil in the Sea of Oman failed under the timely and authoritative actions of the Guards Naval Forces." According to a video released by the Iranian side, the U.S. Navy seized and "hijacked" a large oil tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Gulf of Oman and intended to unload the oil from this tanker onto another tanker. After hearing the news, Iran's Revolutionary Guards immediately sent special forces to the sea area of the incident for armed rescue.
Iranian special forces landed helicopters on the deck of the tanker hijacked by the US military, successfully recaptured the hijacked tanker, and guided it to Iranian waters. Subsequently, the US military sent destroyers and helicopters to pursue the Iranian oil tanker, but was intercepted by the Iranian ship, the two sides had an armed confrontation, but there was no exchange of fire, and the US military finally failed to regain control of the Iranian oil tanker.
In this battle, Iran dispatched a guided missile frigate, more than 10 missile speedboats coordinated attack, as well as Bell-206 helicopters and 5 drones flew over the accident area, and sent special forces to carry out sea and air rescue. Judging from the picture, Iranian frigates, speedboats and helicopters all aimed their cannons and machine guns at the US destroyers, and the US military also engaged in an armed confrontation with the Iranian army, but in the end the US military retreated.
However, the United States immediately denied these reports from Iran, claiming that the incident was actually the abduction of a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker by Iranian troops, and that the U.S. Navy ships were only monitoring the sea situation in the video. According to the U.S. military, U.S. Navy ships and helicopters simply watched from close range as Iran's Revolutionary Guards boarded the tanker and took it to Abbas Harbor, without trying to control any of the tankers at all. However, no matter how the United States explains it, it seems that Iran has won the matter.
Although the United States is often not hesitant to fight in the face of major international strategic choices, directly using military means and even launching wars, such as the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. However, when the US military encountered a small-scale surprise attack, it was very intimidating.
In fact, the U.S. military is the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Contrary to the image of the mighty and domineering US military that everyone remembers, the actual US military often chooses to swallow its anger after encountering a sudden blow.
Summarizing the history of more than seventy years after World War II, it will be found that when the United States suffered a sudden blow on the world, in most cases it would choose to swallow its anger, mainly because of large-scale retaliation and the immaturity of the time to launch a war.
Statistics show that from the 1950s to the present, when the US military conducts political and military operations around the world, it has suffered a total of twelve surprise strikes by opponents, such as the capture of the US spy reconnaissance ship in 1968 by the north of the peninsula, the downing of the US military EC-121 strategic reconnaissance aircraft in 1969, and the hacking of US soldiers in Panmunjom on the 38th Line in 1976.
Another example is the May 1987 Iraqi Air Force launched a Flying Fish anti-ship missile to damage the US frigate Stark, as well as the US Black Hawk fall in Somalia, Iran arrested US special operators, shot down the US Global Hawk drone, and used ballistic missiles to attack US bases in Iraq. After that, the US military did not carry out a particularly fierce retaliation, and in most cases chose to calm down.
In some cases, the United States will even choose to swallow its anger in humiliation, such as the several crises in the north of the peninsula during the Cold War, which is a very strange phenomenon, is the United States really a paper tiger?