DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A top U.S. naval official in Midiest said Sunday that the U.S. has reached a “respite from unrest” with Iran after months of regional strikes and attacks along the coast, despite tensions between Washington and Washington. Atomic program of the Islamic Republic.
Vice Adam oversees the 5th Fleet of the Bahraini Navy. Sam Paparo gave an educational tone in his commentary on the annual Manama Dialogue organized by the International Organization for Strategic Studies. He described it as “healthy respect” for both Iran’s regular navy and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s naval forces.
“We’ve saved an inconvenience. That discomfort is exacerbated by world events and accompanying events, “said Vice Admiral. “But I consider Iran’s activity at sea to be cautious and cautious and respectful, so as not to risk unnecessary misconduct or growth at sea.”
Last year Iran did not directly seize or target any tanker in recent months, while an oil tanker from Saudi Arabia struck a mine. And a cargo ship attacked near Yemen In recent days. Suspicion was quickly dispelled by both attacks on Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Houth Theo also did not comment on the matter.
A former Navy fighter pilot who recently flew to the U.S. Acting as the Central Command’s chief of operations operations, the paparazzi took a different stance from his immediate predecessor, Vice Adam, James Maloy. In his last comment to reporters in August Gust, Malloy called Iran “careless and provocative” and always tried a dramatic naval exercise, saying “they seem to have won something until they are sure they see it.”
Oil tankers seized by Iran during Malloy’s tenure And a series of limpet mine explosions, blamed on Iran by the navy. Tehran refused to get involved, although members of the Revolutionary Guards were filmed taking an unexploded ordnance from a tanker..
In contrast, the few months in charge of the paparazzi have seen no major crisis.
The U.S. Navy regularly encounters tensions with Revolutionary Guards, whose speed boats run alongside American warships in the Persian Gulf and sometimes conduct live-fire drills with machine guns and missile launches in their presence.
Guards usually patrol the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf and its narrow mouth, the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s regular navy is heavily deployed in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. While previous commanders distinguished between the two’s professionalism, the paparazzi dismissed it as an “old idea” that included the belief that the service was still loyal to the former Shah of Iran, who fell in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
“For thirty-one years of the revolution, I think we can share that idea,” Vice Admiral said. “I’m sure there’s a difference between them.”
Asked about the paparazzi’s comments, Alireza Miriyousfi, a spokeswoman for Iran’s mission to the United Nations, said all Iranian navies have “always operated very professionally while patrolling our territorial waters and the Persian Gulf.”
“Otherwise any suggestion is clearly wrong,” Miriusuf told the Associated Press. “The question that needs to be raised is what does the US Navy do, 1,000,000 miles away from its territorial waters?”
The 5th Fleet patrolled Mediast as part of a mission to ensure that long-term supplies could pass through critical regional chokepoints, the Hormuz Strait, through which one-fifth of all oil passes. In the past, Iranian officials have threatened to close the blockade.
Paparo said he did not believe the rebuilding of the 1st Fleet responsible for the Indian Ocean would potentially affect the 5th Fleet’s mission by the Navy.
However, Paparo’s remarks were a clear warning, at one point quoting former U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
“Be polite, be professional and plan to kill everyone in the room,” he said. “That’s the way we treat ourselves at sea.”
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