Iran denied on Thursday that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the USA aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf on Saturday.
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The purported incident comes five months after Iran and world powers led by the U.S. agreed a landmark deal – yet to be finally implemented – to limit the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. He said the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, two other coalition warships and commercial traffic were nearby.
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The US Navy said in an email that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard test-fired rockets in close proximity to several US and French vessels, as well as commercial ships.
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File picture of a rocket being fired from an Iranian military boat during Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.
The straight has been the subject of American and Iranian tension in the past, including a one-day naval battle in 1988.
On Wednesday, the Obama administration began preparing new sanctions that would target almost a dozen companies and individuals in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Hong Kong for their suspected role in helping develop Iran’s missile program and supporting human-rights abuses and global terrorism, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing U.S. officials.
The Strait of Hormuz is only 34 miles wide at its narrowest point.
The U.S. Navy says an Iranian vessel fired several unguided rockets after giving just 23 minutes notice of the live-fire exercise.
The U.S. and France said the October launch violated a U.N. Security Council resolution banning Iranian development of a ballistic missile.
While the rockets weren’t fired in the direction of any ships, Raines said Iran’s “actions were highly provocative”.
NBC News first reported news of the rocket tests.
Iranian officials have not yet publicly commented on the incident. Iran has called Emad a conventional missile.
In reaction, General Ramezan Sharif stressed that the IRGC Navy has held no drills across the Strait of Hormuz within the past week.
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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. Congress recently adopted restrictions barring foreigners who have visited Iran from entering the United States 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.
