Iranian TV: Pentagon Video, Audio Fake

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.

The video from Sunday’s incident shows small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, “I am coming to you. … You will explode after … minutes.”

“The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated,” an official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying by the state-run English-language channel Press TV.
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The Bush administration continued to denounce the Gulf confrontation as “provocative.”

“This is a provocative act - not a smart thing to do, and they are going to have to take responsibility for the consequences, if they do it again,” National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters aboard Air Force One as President Bush flew from Washington to Israel.

Who’s telling the truth? Hard to say. When you get to the point that you question the honesty and integrity of any and all things Bushco, that’s pretty sad. But I will extend those doubts to the Iranian government too.

But a little food for thought; When you have (Bush-controlled) warships patrolling waters just off your coast, with their big guns pointed at your cities, who really is being the provocateur here?