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▪Iran Guards hold war games as U.S. carrier enters Gulf▪

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards launched war games in the Gulf on Saturday, state television reported, after a U.S. aircraft carrier entered the waterway amid rising tension with Washington over reimposed U.S. sanctions.

Television showed amphibious forces landing on Iran’s Gulf island of Qeshm during the exercises, in which naval vessels, helicopters, drones, rocket launchers and commando units also took part.

“Hopefully, with these exercises, our enemies will realize more than ever how devastating our response would be to any move by them,” said Guards chief Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, state news agency IRNA reported.

Qeshm, the largest island in the Gulf, is located near the Strait of Hormuz through which a third of the world’s seaborne oil passes.

The U.S. aircraft carrier John C. Stennis entered the Gulf on Friday and was shadowed by Revolutionary Guards speedboats. Reuters witnesses also saw an Iranian drone flying nearby….cont.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-gulf-wargames/iran-guards-hold-war-games-as-u-s-carrier-enters-gulf-idUSKCN1OL0AV