A US aircraft flying over the Persian Gulf. Iran questioned the deployment of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

A US aircraft flying over the Persian Gulf. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Tensions between Iran and the United States, never far from the surface, showed signs of worsening on Wednesday, with the Iranians threatening to block a vital Persian Gulf access route and protesting what they called the American “meddling approach and tone.”

The Iranian messages, conveyed in statements by a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and by the Foreign Ministry, came a few days after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, expressed exasperation with the United States, questioning the longstanding deployment of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf.

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Source:: The Algemeiner

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