Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/26/2016

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

According to the Defense Department, potentially violent encounters in the Persian Gulf between Iranian forces and the US Navy have risen by more than 50% this year compared with last year. In the latest incident, four Iranian gunboats traveling at high speed approached within 300 yards of the destroyer USS Nimitz.

In other news, the Austrian Foreign Minister described German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s handling of the migration crisis as “irresponsible”.…

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