News, citing unnamed USA military officials, said the Guards were conducting a live-fire exercise and the United States aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman came within about 1,500 yards (meters) of a rocket as it entered the Gulf with other warships.
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“The Guards’ naval force had no exercise in the past week when the Americans claim that a missile or rocket was sacked in the Hormuz Strait area”, said spokesman General Ramezan Sharif.
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Cmdr Raines said Iranian ships had announced over maritime radio their intention to carry out the test 23 minutes before the rockets were fired.
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“These actions were highly provocative, unsafe and unprofessional and call into question Iran’s commitment to the security of a waterway vital to global commerce”, Raines was quoted as saying.
“The noteworthy thing waterway has seen past U.S.-Iran confrontations”. The aircraft carrier reportedly was being escorted by a U.S. destroyer and a French frigate.
There was never any direct communication between the USA and Iranian navies during the incident, according to the official.
Diplomats have held out hope that the deal over Iran’s disputed nuclear program could ease decades of mistrust and reduce tensions in the Middle East.
In Washington, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday the US government was preparing the sanctions, which the Wall Street Journal said would target about 12 companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates for their suspected role in developing Iran’s missile programme.
A French military official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to publicly named, confirmed the rocket fire took place Saturday.
Supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that new sanctions would constitute a violation of the agreement. Iran has agreed to relinquish its nuclear weapons program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, among other things, per the negotiated deal. It conducts anti-piracy patrols in the greater Gulf and serves as a regional counterbalance to Iran.
The US Navy’s 5th Fleet is based in nearby Bahrain.
Iran has also aired footage on state television of an underground missile base, and in February sank a replica of a USA aircraft carrier near the strait.
Then, on April 24, 2015 during a nighttime outbound Strait of Hormuz transit, the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group observed Iranian small boats launching 11 unguided rockets from a position approximately five nautical miles from the carrier.
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President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday ordered the accelerated production of missiles in response to possible new US sanctions.
