Initial reports indicate that the Iranians played chicken with U.S. naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. But with the Bushit Assministration's fetish with provoking a war with Iran, and their lying to push us into that war (as they did with Iraq), it creates doubt as to the circumstances. A Bushit legacy if there ever was one.
The Gulf of Tonkin at the time looked like a clear case of North Vietnamese aggression against our forces in the South China Sea, but history told a different story. This story is still unfolding.