article_snippet.sent: News of the first incident was revealed by Pentagon after Iranian guards seized MV Maersk Tigris this week, by firing warning shots across the vessel's bows.
article_snippet.sent: ranian patrol vessels fired warning shots across the bridge of the Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel the Maersk Tigris Tuesday morning and seized the Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel the Maersk Tigris for trespassing just days after the Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel the Maersk Tigris had 'harassed' another ship .
article_snippet.sent: In the first incident, four Iranian patrol boats with the country's elite Revolutionary Guards 'harassed a US-flagged merchant ship called the Maersk Kensington' as a US-flagged merchant ship called the Maersk Kensington' moved along an established shipping route, said Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren.
article_snippet.sent: ranian patrol vesselsfollowed Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren for approximately 15 to 20 minutes in actions the ship master of the Maersk Kensington' interpreted as aggressive,' Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren said.
article_snippet.sent: The American military was not involved in the first incident and the Maersk Kensington''s captain later filed a report with the US Navy describing the event.
article_snippet.sent: Just four days later, Iranian boats forced a Marshall Islands-flagged ship, the Maersk Tigris, to Iran's Larak Island after firing warning shots across the bows and boarding the vessel.
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television station reported earlier the vessel was US-flagged, but Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television station has since emerged that the vessel is registered in the Pacific island nation and had no Americans aboard.
article_snippet.sent: the vessel was then boarded by Iranians, but no one has been injured and no Americans are involved.
article_snippet.sent: Warren said the vessel issued a distress call and US Naval Forces Central Command, based in the area, sent a US destroyer, the USS Farragut, and a P-3 surveillance aircraft to the area of the incident to monitor the situation. '
article_snippet.sent: A US destroyer, the USS Farragut (pictured), and an aircraft to the area of the incident to monitor the situation .
highlights_snippet.sent: Iranian navy harassed another Maersk ship days before, Pentagon said .
  