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Iran says it has 100 vessels for each US warship

24 July 2010 17:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A former naval chief in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says his country has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each U.S. warship that poses a threat, APA reports quoting news.yahoo.com website.
Gen. Morteza Saffari is quoted by the conservative weekly Panjereh Saturday as saying that troops aboard U.S. warships are "morsels" for Iran to target in the event of any American threat against Iran.
In 2008, Iran put its most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, in charge of defending the country’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, a vital oil route.
The U.S., which has ships in the Gulf, has not ruled out a military strike to thwart what it suspects is an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Iran denies its atomic program is aimed at making weapons.