TEHRAN, Jan 3. Iran threatened on Tuesday to take action if the U.S. Navy moves an aircraft carrier into the Gulf, Tehran's most aggressive statement yet after weeks of sabre-rattling as new U.S. and EU financial sanctions take a toll on its economy.
The prospect of sanctions targeting the oil sector in a serious way for the first time has hit Iran's rial currency, which has fallen by 40 percent against the dollar in the past month.
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| Counter-revolutionary Yankee dollar buying scum! |
Army chief Ataollah Salehi said the United States had moved an aircraft carrier out of the Gulf from because of Iran's naval exercises, and Iran would take action if the ship returned.
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| USS John C Stennis. |
"Iran will not repeat its warning ... the enemy's carrier has been moved to the Sea of Oman because of our drill." (Reuters).
Ah...the mad max mullahs...they never let one down. But a major collapse of the Iranian economy could just be the opening the anti-regime folk need to kick the odious pus-pots out of town.
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