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Iranian ballistic missiles are launched during military exercises earlier this year (AFP, Rouholla Vahdati)
Iranian ballistic missiles are launched during military exercises earlier this year (AFP, Rouholla Vahdati)
Iran has announced its intentions to test a long-range missile in the Persian Gulf. Iran has threatened the United States that if more sanctions are imposed, Iran will not allow “one drop” of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. However, the United States does not receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Haaretz reported:
Amid a verbal row with the United States over blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil shipping route, Iran proclaimed on Friday that it will start testing long range missiles in the Persian Gulf.“On Saturday morning the Iranian navy will test several of its long-range missiles in the Persian Gulf,” navy deputy commander Admiral Mahmoud Moussavi told Fars news agency.The testing of the missiles is part of ongoing navy maneuvers in the Persian Gulf and, according to Moussavi, the main and final phase is preparing the navy for confronting the enemy in a warlike situation.The maneuver has been overshadowed by a verbal row between Iran and the US over an Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, through which 40 per cent of the world’s ship-borne crude is passed.The spark for the row was a Tuesday remark by Iranian Vice President Mohammd-Reza Rahimi that, “if Western countries sanctioned Iranian oil, then Iran would not allow one drop of oil to cross the Strait of Hormuz.”