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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran on Sunday said that its warships had “shooed away” American and French military forces in the Gulf of Aden.
U.S. and French "reconnaissance planes, helicopters and warships approached the Iranian warships in a provocative move” on Saturday night, the Fars news agency reported. "The vessels and aircraft then received a warning from Iranian Destroyer ‘Alborz’ apologized and rapidly changed direction.”
The agency said the same thing happened last Monday, when "a U.S. warship and military planes changed their direction as they were patrolling in the Gulf of Aden after they came close to an Iranian naval fleet and were warned to move away”.
The report said the Iranian Navy’s 34th fleet, comprising the Alborz destroyer and Bushehr helicopter-carrier warship, is conducting three months of "anti-piracy patrols” in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. It quoted the flotilla’s commander, Mustafa Tajeddini, saying, "Checking foreign warships in the international waters and surveillance of potential threats to Iran’s national interests is our essential responsibility.”
The report comes amid U.S. support for Saudi invasion of Yemen with the help of some Persian Gulf Arab sheikhs. Obama is holding a summit at Camp David on Thursday with Persian Gulf Cooperation Council countries — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
Two top Iranian generals on Thursday had warned the United States, saying the much-discussed military option to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities is "ridiculous” that Washington knows it can’t be done, and that their country "welcomes war with the U.S.”
Brigadier General Hussein Salami, the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, said in an interview on national television that a battle with the U.S. would only serve to highlight Iran’s strengths.
"We welcome war with the U.S. as we do believe that it will be the scene for our success to display the real potentials of our power,” he said, according to a report by the Fars news agency. "We have prepared ourselves for the most dangerous scenarios and this is no big deal.”
Salami threatened that Iran would strike any airbase used as a launchpad for a strike on his country.
"We warn their pilots that their first flight (to attack Iran) will be their last one and no one will be allowed to go back safe and sound,” he warned.
IRGC commander Major General Muhammad Ali Jafari, gave a similar warning during a ceremony in the city of Semnan, in the north of the country. Jafari reasoned that if the West really thought it could attack Iran at will, it would have done so already; instead world powers "kneel” before Iranian might, he said.
"The military option that the Westerners speak of constantly is ridiculous and they know that if the military option could have produced any result, they would have already used it many times, and today they have shifted their focus to other types of threats and to the soft war front,” Jafri said.
"Today, the Islamic Iran’s pride and might has made the world’s biggest materialistic and military powers kneel down before the Islamic Republic,” he said.
Iranian officials have recently issued several warnings in what local media said is a response to threats by U.S. officials to bomb their country.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the U.S. "can’t do a damn thing” to harm Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Negotiations between Iran and six world powers — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — are scheduled to resume on May 12 in Vienna, the European Union and Tehran said last week. The political leaders of the other world powers involved in the negotiations are to join the talks on May 15.
Iran and the world powers want to turn a mutual understanding reached in Switzerland on April 2 into a full agreement by June 30.
U.S. and French "reconnaissance planes, helicopters and warships approached the Iranian warships in a provocative move” on Saturday night, the Fars news agency reported. "The vessels and aircraft then received a warning from Iranian Destroyer ‘Alborz’ apologized and rapidly changed direction.”
The agency said the same thing happened last Monday, when "a U.S. warship and military planes changed their direction as they were patrolling in the Gulf of Aden after they came close to an Iranian naval fleet and were warned to move away”.
The report said the Iranian Navy’s 34th fleet, comprising the Alborz destroyer and Bushehr helicopter-carrier warship, is conducting three months of "anti-piracy patrols” in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. It quoted the flotilla’s commander, Mustafa Tajeddini, saying, "Checking foreign warships in the international waters and surveillance of potential threats to Iran’s national interests is our essential responsibility.”
The report comes amid U.S. support for Saudi invasion of Yemen with the help of some Persian Gulf Arab sheikhs. Obama is holding a summit at Camp David on Thursday with Persian Gulf Cooperation Council countries — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
Two top Iranian generals on Thursday had warned the United States, saying the much-discussed military option to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities is "ridiculous” that Washington knows it can’t be done, and that their country "welcomes war with the U.S.”
Brigadier General Hussein Salami, the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, said in an interview on national television that a battle with the U.S. would only serve to highlight Iran’s strengths.
"We welcome war with the U.S. as we do believe that it will be the scene for our success to display the real potentials of our power,” he said, according to a report by the Fars news agency. "We have prepared ourselves for the most dangerous scenarios and this is no big deal.”
Salami threatened that Iran would strike any airbase used as a launchpad for a strike on his country.
"We warn their pilots that their first flight (to attack Iran) will be their last one and no one will be allowed to go back safe and sound,” he warned.
IRGC commander Major General Muhammad Ali Jafari, gave a similar warning during a ceremony in the city of Semnan, in the north of the country. Jafari reasoned that if the West really thought it could attack Iran at will, it would have done so already; instead world powers "kneel” before Iranian might, he said.
"The military option that the Westerners speak of constantly is ridiculous and they know that if the military option could have produced any result, they would have already used it many times, and today they have shifted their focus to other types of threats and to the soft war front,” Jafri said.
"Today, the Islamic Iran’s pride and might has made the world’s biggest materialistic and military powers kneel down before the Islamic Republic,” he said.
Iranian officials have recently issued several warnings in what local media said is a response to threats by U.S. officials to bomb their country.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the U.S. "can’t do a damn thing” to harm Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Negotiations between Iran and six world powers — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — are scheduled to resume on May 12 in Vienna, the European Union and Tehran said last week. The political leaders of the other world powers involved in the negotiations are to join the talks on May 15.
Iran and the world powers want to turn a mutual understanding reached in Switzerland on April 2 into a full agreement by June 30.
