Newsinc24 Team A senior military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has warned that US warships in the Strait of Hormuz, blocking shipping traffic to and from Iranian ports, are "within striking range", claiming American naval forces are now "under our missile launchers", escalating tensions in the strategic waterway.
Mohsen Rezaei, a former commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said on TV that Tehran would sink American ships if the United States decided to "police" the key shipping bottleneck. Rezaei was named as a military adviser by Khamenei last month.
"Trump wants to become the police of the Strait of Hormuz. Is this really your job? Is this the job of a powerful army like the US?" he told state TV. A veteran and high-profile figure in Iran, Rezaei led the IRGC from 1981 to 1997.
Addressing the state broadcaster, wearing his military uniform, he said, "The launchers have most likely been moved by our brothers and are now aimed at the Abraham Lincoln and all American warships." "These ships of yours will be sunk by our first missiles and have created a great danger for the US military. They can definitely be exposed to our missiles, and we can destroy them all. We will not allow a single one to escape us."
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