Iran yesterday denied USA accusations of launching a provocative rocket test last week near Western warships in the Strait of Hormuz, dismissing the claim as “psychological warfare” against the Islamic Republic.
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“The rockets were not fired at the Truman and other ships, only near them”, the network said.
As they passed, Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels, hailing other ships in the strait over maritime radio, announced that they would be carrying out a live-fire exercise.
“Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognised maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with global maritime law”, he added.
Iranian media did not immediately report on the incident.
President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the accelerated production of missiles in response to US plans to impose new sanctions.
Although Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei explicitly endorsed the nuclear accord in October he warned that new sanctions, under any pretext, would constitute a violation.
To protect its considerable interests there, the United States deployed warships to the area to defend USA vessels in April after Iran seized a cargo ship owned by the Danish company Maersk that was traversing the strait.
“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.
The navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has long focused on what it calls “asymmetric warfare” in the Strait of Hormuz, a combination of fast boats and missiles to challenge the larger vessels of adversaries.
The US Navy’s 5th Fleet is based in nearby Bahrain, on the southern coast of the Gulf.
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Under the deal, Iran will also receive natural uranium from Russian Federation and Kazakhstan to be used in nuclear reactors for future energy production. The development seems to indicate that the historic arrangement between the USA and Iran appears to be on the right track.
