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IRGC Navy to Confront Aggressors in Persian Gulf with Crushing Response

Rasa - Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Hossein Salami once again stressed the IRGC Navy's high capabilities, and warned that any aggressive action will receive Tehran's crushing response.

News ID: 426465

Date: 11 January 2017 - 22:21

RNA - "Any power that seeks to make an aggression against the (Iranian) territorial waters intentionally or unintentionally will be confronted by the IRGC Navy's high power," General Salami said, addressing a ceremony in the Northern city of Bushehr on Wednesday.

He referred to the detention of the US naval forces by the IRGC Navy in the Persian Gulf on January 12, 2016, and said the incident shattered the arrogant powers' awe in the heart of the Persian Gulf.

The IRGC seized two US Navy boats last January and detained all on board on Iran's Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. Nine men and one woman arrived in Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf illegally when they were captured by the IRGC Navy. They were freed later after diplomatic consultations.

Commander of the IRGC Second Naval Zone General Ali Razmjou announced in September that thousands of valuable documents were seized from the US naval forces when they were captured by the IRGC forces in the Persian Gulf last year.

"We seized thousands of pages of valuable intelligence from the US marines during their detention," General Razmjou said.

Stressing that the US marines had violated the Iranian territorial waters, he said the Americans have made repeated attempts to find a pretext to file a lawsuit against Iran in this regard but to no avail.

Also, last July, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy General Alireza Tangsiri said the US warships have been warned to keep 12 nautical miles away from Iran's territorial waters or wait for an incident similar to what happened last January.

"We have a strong presence in the quintuple regions of the South and our independent bases in the Sea of Oman, in such a way that foreign vessels never dare to approach regions 12 miles away from our territorial waters and if they do, they will be treated like what we did to the Americans (on January 12, 2016)," Tangsiri told at the time.

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