USS Fitzgerald Stands Firm as U.S. Navy Rejects Iranian Propaganda
According to the official U.S. account, the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62), which deployed from its homeport in San Diego in June, was conducting routine and lawful operations in the vicinity of the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday morning. At approximately 10:50 a.m. local time, the destroyer interacted with an Iranian SH-3 Sea King helicopter. The U.S. defense official unequivocally denied the core allegations of the Iranian report, stating that the
USS Fitzgerald never entered Iranian territorial waters and that its crew did not threaten to engage the aircraft.