Iran TV: U.S. Faked Video of Gulf Encounter

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran accused America yesterday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting American warships in the Persian Gulf.

The video from Sunday's incident shows small Iranian boats swarming around American warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes."

"The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated," an official in Iran's Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying by the state-run English-language channel Press TV.

State TV did not give the name of the Revolutionary Guard official and did not offer more details about how the official knew the footage was "fabricated."