U.S. tensions with Iran are on the rise over a naval incident Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz off the Iranian coast. The U.S. claims Iranian speed boats came within 500 yards of the U.S. warships and threatened to blow them up. The Iranian boats backed away before the American warships opened fire. Speaking at the White House, President Bush accused Iran of a “provocative act.”

President Bush: “Well, we viewed it as a provocative act. It is a dangerous situation. And they should not have done it, pure and simple.... I don’t know what — I think, what their thinking was. But I’m telling you what I think it was. I think it was a provocative act.”