A steady drumbeat of leaks suggests that the US and/or Israel may attack Iran sometime over the coming months. Once Upon a Time in Iran is a road movie featuring pilgrims and presidents: a journey to the spiritual heartlands of the Iranian people and a tale of martyrdom that defines their view of aggressors.
The Persian Gulf was the focus of the Iraq-Iran War that lasted from 1980 - 88.
It has similarities with the incident in 88, when in the same Strait of Hormuz, the USS Vincennes shot-down an Iranian civilian-airliner.
Iranian version
The Iranians have issued their own video, in which one of their sailors, in a much higher and quite different voice from the one which issued the "warning", asks the US ships who they are and what course they are on.
He gets a dusty reply that the US vessels are in international waters.
Beyond the propaganda
Tensions between Iran and the US have diminished recently following the US National Intelligence Estimate that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.
There are still serious points of potential-conflict between the two, with Iran always determined to exert its influence in the region.
Via BBC/Guardian-Unlimited
Simon Reeve looks into the reasons behind the war in Iraq, from oil to the petro-dollar, to US supremacy and finishes with the Iranian oil bourse.
