That’s just what Iran did Saturday, shooting several unguided rockets about 1,500 yards from the USS Harry S. Truman and a pair of smaller USA and French warships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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The test occurred on Saturday as two U.S ships – the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and the USS Bulkeley destroyer – were in the area, along with a French frigate, said Cmdr.
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General Sharif’s reaction came a day after the U.S. accused Iran of launching a “highly provocative” rocket test last week near its warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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A USA military official told The Hill newspaper that the Iranian ships approached the Truman and other vessels before announcing it was setting the live-fire exercise in motion and requesting nearby vessels to keep clear.
Iran’s “actions were highly provocative”, Raines said.
A team of United Nations sanctions monitors said in a confidential report seen by Reuters on December 15 that Iran tested a rocket on October 10 capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, which Iran maintains was a convention missile.
It was noted by US military officials that the encounter was “uncharacteristic of most interactions” that take place between the USA and the Iranian navies.
Even with the nuclear agreement moving along, the Treasury Department is reportedly getting ready to slap new sanctions on companies and people participating in the ballistic missile program. Kyle Raines, a US Central Command spokesman. Its presence so close to Iran infuriates Tehran, U.S. officials say.
The Truman carried out its first missions in the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday.
Those Iranian drills involved hordes of speedboats armed with cruise missiles and rockets, medium- and large-caliber torpedoes, sea mines, heavy machine guns and shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.
“They were observed quickly approaching their location as they transited the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Gulf”, said the official.
It’s part of a decades-old pattern of Iranian provocations. He noted, however, that the Iranians were clearly not firing in the direction of the US ships. It conducts anti-piracy patrols in the greater Gulf and serves as a regional counterbalance to Iran.
“A ship carrying more than 25,000 pounds of low-enriched uranium materials left Iran for Russian Federation on Monday in a step toward honoring Iran’s July 14 nuclear deal with major powers”.
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“Over the past week or the period claimed by the Americans, the naval forces of the IRGC have not had military exercise and have not launched any rocket or missile in the Strait of Hurmoz” in the Persian Gulf, the chief of IRGC’s public relations, Ramezan Sharif, was quoted as saying.
