Several Revolutionary Guard vessels fired the rockets “in close proximity” of the warships and nearby merchant traffic “after providing only 23 minutes of advance notification”, said Raines, spokesman for the U.S. Central Command.
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The dispute comes after Iran and six world powers, including the US, reached a historic deal in July that will remove certain US, EU, and United Nations sanctions on Tehran in exchange for Iran accepting curbs on its nuclear program.
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According to the U.S., the Iranian ships were conducting a live-fire exercise within about 1400 kilometers from the Harry Truman aircraft carrier.
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“Such a move is illegal, unilateral and tactless, and Iran has already noted this point to the United States”, Jaber Ansari was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency. The Strait of Hormuz connects the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf.
“A rush to sanctions relief threatens to embolden an increasingly aggressive Iranian regime that has no intention of normalizing relations with the West or of retreating from a malign policy meant to destabilize the Middle East”, McCain said in a statement released Wednesday.
On Tuesday, reports emerged that last Saturday the U.S. aircraft carrier was intimidated after missiles were launched by an Iranian patrol vessel on a parallel course with the American naval convoy.
“Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognized maritime traffic lane is unsafe”, Stephens said.
Iranian media did not immediately report on the incident.
It was the third such provocation in the past 14 months, a spokesman for the Navy’s 5 Fleet, responsible for operations in the Persian Gulf, told Fox News. The development seems to indicate that the historic arrangement between the US and Iran appears to be on the right track.
Such a step by the US Treasury Department would be the first American sanctions against Iran since the nuclear agreement and presents a potential barrier to its durability.
In recent weeks, however, tensions between the United States and Iran have risen.
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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Tehran has always denied seeking an atomic weapon and thus its missiles would not be created to, nor ever carry, a bomb.
