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Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday scoffed at US claims it could clear Gulf waters of mines in case of conflict after Washington announced plans for a multinational anti-mine operation.
"The Americans boast a lot about many things, but they are facing problems in practice," General Mahmoud Fahimi, deputy chief of the Guards' naval forces, told the Fars news agency."We have no doubt that the United States cannot do anything in the area of minesweeping."
The United States and about 20 other nations are to hold a major anti-mine operation near the Gulf on September 16-27, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, after Iran threatened it could block oil shipments through the waterway.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said the operation was "a defensive exercise aimed at preserving freedom of navigation in international waterways in the Middle East."
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