According to Press TV, citing a senior military official, yesterday's US attempt to send the USS Frank Patterson and USS Michael Murphy through the Strait of Hormuz turned into a failed propaganda operation.

According to a Press TV investigation, the aim of the USS Frank Patterson and USS Michael Murphy's attempt to pass through the Strait of Hormuz was to exploit the ceasefire to make a false claim of passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the one hand and to influence the negotiations with Islamabad on the other.

In the Press TV investigation, the attempt by the USS Peterson and USS Murphy was described as an extremely risky move that could have turned into a disaster for the US. The Press TV investigation, citing a senior military official, indicates that the USS Frank Patterson and USS Michael Murphy attempted to make a surprise entry into the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, at the same time as the negotiations with Islamabad began.

The two destroyers attempted to deceive the IRGC Navy by using electronic warfare and disabling their automatic position reporting system. The destroyers attempted to impersonate an Omani merchant ship that was sailing along the coast in the southern part of the Sea of ​​Oman. They also took a high risk by choosing a route very close to the coast and shallow, so that they could only pass through this route and enter the Persian Gulf through stealth, deception, and the hope that Iranian forces would neglect the ceasefire.

According to a Press TV investigation, the IRGC Navy became suspicious of the two destroyers near the port of Fujairah in the Sea of ​​Oman and, after further technical monitoring and surveillance, dispatched vessels to investigate. The vessels identified the destroyers at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and are moving to stop them. The USS Frank Patterson initially tried to continue on its route, but immediately noticed a radar lock on the cruise missiles and was stopped by IRGC vessels.

At the same time, IRGC drones also flew over the two destroyers. The Patterson then received a notification on international channel 16 that it would either return and leave the area within thirty minutes or be targeted by Iranian armed forces. When the destroyer insisted on continuing on its course, a final warning was given to the destroyer, so that the destroyer was only minutes away from being destroyed.

At the same time, the IRGC Navy warned all vessels in the area to stay at least 10 miles away from these destroyers, as they would be the target of IRGC naval fire and if they were targeted by the IRGC, other vessels in the area would not be harmed.

Ultimately, both destroyers were forced to retreat to the waters of the Sea of ​​Oman, without being able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance to the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Press TV's investigation indicates that this was a very dangerous move for the soldiers stationed on these two destroyers, which professional commanders would not naturally accept, but they were forced to do so under political pressure from the Trump administration and in the absence of the dismissed generals of the US Army.

The inexperienced US Secretary of War actually risked the lives of American soldiers to launch a showdown at the same time as the negotiations.

An action that, of course, failed, and if Iran had not been in a ceasefire, these ships would certainly have been a fat morsel that would never have escaped capture.