On Saturday, in what the U.S. military called a “highly provocative” act, the Iranian navy launched several unguided rockets in close proximity to USA warships and other commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, with only 23 minutes’ notice of the test to the other ships.
Advertisement
Countdown To 2016 With Carrie
We suppose you could always set your DVR to record all four, allowing you to stretch New Year’s Eve through to 2016. Bravo’s Cohen subs for Jane Lynch, the host of NBC’s “Hollywood Game Night” series (which returns January 5).
“Publication of such false news under the present circumstances is more of a psychological warfare”, Sharif said in comments posted on the Revolutionary Guard’s website.
2016 brings higher minimum wages in DC, Md
The pay raises also underline the growing gap between statewide wage floors and the federal hourly minimum, which remains .25. Meanwhile, an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income families will be effective tomorrow as well.
Caption + In this Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015 photo released by the U.S. Navy, guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley participates in a replenishment-at-sea with fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall in the Gulf of Oman.
UCSF Voluntarily Shut Down Its Living Donor Program for Kidney Transplants
Kaiser has never resumed its program and pays for pre-transplant care and surgery for its patients at other hospitals. The donor had provided a kidney to a recipient at University of California San Francisco Medical center in October.
While the rockets weren’t fired in the direction of any ships, Raines said Iran’s actions were “highly provocative”.
The waterway is a crucial route for trade – almost a third of all oil traded by sea passes through it – and is also vital for ships taking part in the war against the Islamic State terror group.
USA officials have said the treasury department retains a right under the nuclear agreement to blacklist Iranian entities suspected of involvement in missile development, the newspaper said.
In a statement Wednesday, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet said, “Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships…is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with global maritime law”.
The Strait of Hormuz is only 34 miles wide at its narrowest point.
Back in May, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined that security of the Persian Gulf region comes within the purview of the regional countries alone, and dismissed the U.S. claim of seeking security in the region.
Before, a United States aircraft carrier came within about 1,500 yards of an Iranian rocket while operating in the Strait of Hormuz, a Pentagon official told CNN on December 30.
Board members of the United Nations nuclear agency on Tuesday adopted a resolution to close the investigation into whether Tehran once had a nuclear weapons program, upon a review of Iran’s implementation of its commitments under a nuclear deal endorsed by the UN Security Council in July. Per the brokered U.S-Iranian deal, the Iranians recently turned over their Uranium stockpile to Russian Federation.
Advertisement
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari on Thursday condemned as “arbitrary and illegal” US plans for new sanctions on worldwide companies and individuals over Iran’s ballistic missile programme. Iran has always denied seeking nuclear arms. Taraghi has long expressed the view that the nuclear deal did not signal a transformation of the long-strained relations between the United States and Iran.
