Iran has denied that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near a USA aircraft-carrier and other warships as they were entering the Persian Gulf on December 26.
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Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near USA warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the American military said Wednesday, causing new tension between the two nations after a landmark nuclear deal.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launched denials Thursday that it fired test rockets near a USA aircraft carrier and protested the upcoming sanctions, which the us recently announced as a response to the apparent test-firing.
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A Pentagon official told CNN on Wednesday that a United States aircraft carrier came within about 1,500 yards of an Iranian rocket while operating in the Strait of Hormuz.
In Washington, Commander Kyle Raines said the action was “highly provocative, unsafe and unprofessional”.
The US is accusing Iran of “highly provocative” actions near the Persian Gulf-with live missiles.
In the past, Iran has threatened to block the strait, which lies at the entrance of the Arabian Gulf.
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 and six world powers – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States – signed a historic nuclear deal in July to imposes limits on the Iranian nuclear program in return for lifting of economic sanctions. A French frigate, the U.S. destroyer USS Bulkeley and other commercial traffic were also in the area at the time of Saturday’s incident, the U.S. Central Command said. Iran rejected the allegations, saying the sanctions only applied to missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and that their missiles had no such capability. The development seems to indicate that the historic arrangement between the US and Iran appears to be on the right track.
Iran’s weekend provocation is further proof getting a final nuclear deal is going to be a rocky road.
However, in a statement on the Revolutionary Guards’ website, Gen Ramezan Sharif said Iran had not fired any rockets.
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said such new penalties would nullify the nuclear accord.
