U.S. military and intelligence personnel told Newsweek that Iran and its allies have been increasingly conducting reconnaissance and gathering intelligence near U.S. positions, raising major concerns.
"What we have seen so far have not been on the scale we have expected but that does not mean Iran is not capable of doing those things," Hook told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs' Middle East, North Africa and Terrorism subcommittee in June.
The U.S. has since bolstered its naval coalition, the so-called International Maritime Security Construct, which now includes Australia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the U.K. On the other hard, Iran sought to court regional states into what it termed the Coalition for Hope, or Hormuz Peace Endeavor, vowing mutual non-aggression and non-interference in one another's affairs.
That year would see the U.S. expand its intervention in the region elsewhere, supporting insurgencies in Libya and in Syria, Iran's top Arab ally. The U.S. and Iran found themselves on opposing ends of Syria's civil war, but then somewhat united in new common foe, the Islamic State militant group , which both Washington and Tehran helped quash across Iraq and Syria in recent years.
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