The Iranian Foreign Ministry wouldn't acknowledge the message the US sent because it twice used the word Gulf instead of Persian Gulf when referring to the January 6 incident between U.S. warships and Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States contends its warships received a threatening radio transmission telling the U.S. fleet they would "explode." The Pentagon released a four-minute, 20-second videotape that showed five boats racing back and forth near the convoy.
Iran, which also released video footage of the incident, maintains it was a routine communication. The Islamic republic accuses the United States of faking the video and exaggerating the matter for political purposes.
The United States and Iran have had a lot of tension lately and this incident only added to it. The Iranians believe that the boats that were circling the US ship were just doing what they usually do but the United States found it defensive. Now, the US has sent a message to Iran and Iran refused to agree to it because it had the wrong name of the location of the incident.
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