CNO Downplays Gulf Tensions Even As Navy Sends More Ships - Calls Iranian Navy "Professional And Courteous" -- Aol Defense
The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, detailed the Navy's build-up in the Persian Gulf today, but he downplayed the prospects of any immediate conflict with Iran – even as the fleet develops new weapons for coastal combat and plans to double its deployment of minesweepers and upgunned patrol craft to Bahrain.
"I will tell you the Iranian Navy has been professional and courteous, they've been good mariners, they've operated in accordance with the rules of the road," Adm. Greenert told reporters at a breakfast talk in Washington, D.C. By contrast, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which operates its own naval forces independently of the regular Navy, "has on occasion violated decorum and rules of the road. Those are the incidents you read about in the paper where small boats get too close," he said, "[but even] they're not ramping up." Though there are "occasional" minor provocations by the Guard Corps, overall Iranian military activity is at normal levels, Greenert said.
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