It never dawns on reporters that just PERHAPS the Iranians WANTED the threat to not sound like an Iranian nor be able to directly link it to the boats threatening the warships....just in case we FIRED on them and sunk them!
Good Lord; have all reporters lost their brains?
Remember when the US warship shot down an Iranian 747? Didn’t the Iranians use an F14 transponder code on the commercial flight to bait the US seamen? I wouldn’t put anything past the Iranians.