NCRI – Regarding the firing of rockets by the mullahs’ regime near coalition warships in the Strait of Hormuz Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said:
“The rocket fire exercise by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Saturday, December 27, over international waters in the Strait of Hormuz once against shows that despite the policy of appeasement and all the undue concessions to the regime by the West, the mullahs’ regime, and in particular the IRGC, in no way intends to end its provocative actions to wreak havoc in the region.”
“In reality, following the regime’s strategic retreat in its nuclear projects and the quagmire it faces in its regional strategy, in particular after the heavy blows that the commanders of the IRGC have suffered in Syria, the regime more than ever needs to generate crises and export terrorism and fundamentalism – hallmarks of the regime for the past three decades – in order to motivate its forces, in particular the IRGC.”
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NBC News first reported news of the rocket tests, citing unnamed U.S. military officials. It said the IRGC were conducting a live-fire exercise and the Truman came within about 1,500 yards (1,370 meters) of a rocket.
Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in a statement on Wednesday that Iranian IRGC naval vessels fired “several unguided rockets” about 1,370 meters from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, the USS Bulkeley destroyer and a French frigate, the FS Provence. Raines said commercial sea traffic also was nearby.
Raines said the Iranian vessels announced over maritime radio that they would carry out a live fire exercise only 23 minutes beforehand.
The Iranian regime’s “actions were highly provocative,” Raines said. “Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognized maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with international maritime law.”