Iranul face un exerciţiu militar in apropierea frontierei afgane

Sâmbătă, 07 Ianuarie 2012 22:29

Conform Reuters - Iran a lansat o manevră militară în apropierea graniţei sale cu Afganistanul sâmbătă, semi-oficial de agenţia Fars News a raportat, de zile de la exerciţii navale în zona Golfului a crescut tensiunile cu Occidentul şi a stimulat cresterea preturilor petrolului.

Mohammad Pakpour, comandant al forţelor terestre Gărzile Revoluţionare ", a declarat ca" martiri Unităţii "exerciţii de lângă Khvat, 60 km (40 mile) din Afganistan, au fost", care vizează stimularea de securitate de-a lungul frontierelor iranian, "a raportat Fars.

"Forţele navale" Gărzile Revoluţionare au facut un exerciţiu de 10 zile în Golf , care a pus capăt relatiilor inrautatite cu Washington, la zi după ce preşedintele american Barack Obama a aprobat sancţiuni care au ca scop de a opri ţările sa cumpare petrol iranian

Threats that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz, which leads out of the Gulf and provides the outlet for most oil from the Middle East, pushed up oil prices and Iran warned Washington not to send an aircraft carrier back into the Gulf.

Forces with the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike group, the target of Tehran's threat, rescued 13 Iranian fishermen from Somali pirates days after passing through the Strait. [ID:nL6E8C6004]

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi played down the political significance of the rescue.

"On some occasions, Iran has helped and secured the released of many other countries' sailors that had been caught by pirates," he told state-run Press TV.

"This is a humanitarian gesture and it is not related to the countries' relations with each other."