Iran’s state media says the video and audio recordings of Iranian Revolutionary Guards boats confronting US warships in the Strait of Hormuz were fabricated, according to al-Jazeera. Curiously, the Iranian Republic News Agency does not even build mention of the incident on its English

website. How Iran can pretend that that did not happen is astonishing. See the YouTube video footage here. As I argued in the summer issue of inFocus Quarterly, Iran is simply unafraid of the United States. Our

Original post by Jonathan Schanzer