Iran claims new naval mines laid in Strait of Hormuz
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Iran, which the US had previously claimed to have cleared, now claims to have installed additional sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to them, the only thing that” the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for U.S. military operations in the Middle East, could do was “change the name of the strait using Photoshop”.
Tehran responds ironically to the US President's proposal to re-baptize the strategic step as "Trump narrow."
The Express Tribune
Iran claims new naval mines laid in Strait of Hormuz
US military maintains 50,000 troops and 19 warships in the Middle East for a long-term strategy
Noticias de Navarra
It seems that Donald Trump has taken the pleasure of changing the names of the map. Last Wednesday the US president joked with the possibility of putting his name to the Strait of Ormuz, something that has not taken long to lift blisters in Iran. This Wednesday, the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic responded by placing "more mines" in this strategic step, at the same time that Tehran claimed new attacks against American bases in the Persian …
Iran’s Armed Forces assured on Thursday that they laid new naval mines in the Strait of Ormuz, deepening the dispute with the United States over the control of one of the most important sea passes for the world oil trade. Iranian unified combat command spokesman Jatam al Anbiya, Ebrahim Zolfaqari, said [...] Iran’s entry claims to have planted new mines in Ormuz and mocks Trump for wanting to re-baptize the Strait was first published in The Jour…
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