The United States on Wednesday accused Iran of carrying out rocket tests near American warships and commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz last week.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said here on Thursday that his countyr will respond to any new USA sanctions and interfering measures over its defensive missile program. The USS Bulkeley was also in the region, as was a French frigate. Cmdr Raines said the Iranian vessels announced over maritime radio that they’d carry out a live fire exercise only 23 minutes beforehand.
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The Iranian regime’s “actions were highly provocative”, Raines said.
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“Iran hasn’t conduct any military drills in the Strait of Hormuz and doesn’t launch any rockets”, TASS cited the representative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC), Ramazan Sharif, as saying.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has since told his defense minister to quicken the pace on Iran’s ballistic-missile program, following the announcement of new sanctions against Iranian individuals.
But General Ramezan Sharif, spokesman for the IRGC, said that the US was blatantly lying about the incident and added, “Publishing such lies in the current situation is more a psychological operation”. Iran sank a replica of a USA aircraft carrier in February near the strait and it earlier tested out so-called “suicide drones” it said could crash into naval vessels. Such rockets might corkscrew out of control, threatening nearby ships, or US intelligence could mistakenly conclude USA vessels were under attack. It conducts anti-piracy patrols in the greater Gulf and serves as a regional counterbalance to Iran.
Iranian and USA forces have clashed in the Gulf in the past, especially during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iran’s weekend provocation is further proof getting a final nuclear deal is going to be a rocky road. That caused the 5th Fleet to escort commercial ships traveling in the Gulf for a short time. The U.S. Congress recently adopted restrictions barring foreigners who have visited Iran from entering the U.S. under a visa-waiver program; lawmakers said the steps were a response to terrorism, but Iranian leaders, eager to expand commercial links after years of sanctions, criticized the move.
Iran has on several occasions threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic.
Teheran and six world powers, including the United States, agreed in a deal in July to curb Iran’s nuclear programme in return for lifting economic sanctions.
Some U.S. critics of the deal have said the Iran cannot be trusted to comply – however proponents of the deal say Iran’s actions can be verified and that progress seems to be on track.
Following the Fox News report of the second ballistic missile launch, U.S. Sen.
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