Unusual for the Mirror to lead with foreign news especially as it is the only paper that does this morning.The story is relegated to the inside pages of the qualities

Quite like the second para for its dramatic content

An American captain ordered his men to battle stations after receiving a radio transmission that said: "I'm coming at you! You will explode in two minutes!"

Along with

They came over the early morning horizon like a swarm of angry wasps - five heavily armed Iranian gunboats captained by hothead Revolutionary Guards.
Recklessly, they weaved and darted so close to three patrolling US warships in the tense Strait of Hormuz that commanders had to take evasive action.
For a while they seemed no more than an irritant. Then a radio transmission from an Iranian craft just 200 metres away raised tensions to an unbearable height.