‘”Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space,” a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain told news agencies.’
If that’s true - and, personally, I’d be utterly astonished - then it’s a blindfold which is utterly counterproductive, not to mention fatuously stupid.
Of course it’s not true. But they dasn’t say aloud that they’re violating Iranian air space. But wait...fatuous...stupid...it’s true.