Arriving in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. ships are taken out by an Iranian midget submarine after Queen's 'We Will Rock You' plays.
In the past year, the U.S. and Iran have locked themselves in a cycle of tensions in the Persian Gulf region, especially in Iraq, where they have engaged in direct attacks on each other. After a series of escalations between the U.S. and Iraqi militias aligned with Iran, Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani and his entourage were killed by a U.S. drone last month in Baghdad, leading to a retaliatory Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases housing Americans.
U.S.-Iran frictions have steadily worsened since President Donald Trump's 2018 decision to walk away from the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran and impose heavy sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Iran has sought to work with France, Germany and the United Kingdom toBeijing and Moscow recently teamed up with Tehran to hold their first-ever joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman.
That event, and Washington's refusal to apologize, has long served as a definitive moment in U.S.-Iran relations. Tehran, however, has recently found itself admitting fault after accidentally shooting down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 , killing 176 civilians just hours after the Iranian missile strike on U.S. facilities in neighboring Iraq.Abraham Lincoln
carrier strike group, to the Middle East over the past year as tensions with Iran grew. Iranian officials, including Soleimani's successor, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, have vowed further acts of revenge in order to expel U.S. forces from the region.
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