By Natasha Bertrand, Kevin Liptak, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN
Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters/File via CNN Newsource
A US aircraft carrier has shot down an Iranian drone that "aggressively approached" the ship in the Arabian Sea hours before two gunboats operated by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps approached a US-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to board and seize the ship, according to a US military spokesman.
The two incidents occurred days before US and Iranian officials are due to meet Friday for diplomatic negotiations meant to avert a military clash.
In the first incident on Tuesday (local time), US forces shot down an Iranian drone "as the unmanned aircraft aggressively approached" the USS Abraham
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