Iranian Troops Track, Record Video of US Aircraft Carrier

Fars News Agency
December 29, 2011

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian vessel and a surveillance plane tracked, photographed and recorded video of a US aircraft carrier during Iran?s ongoing navy drill near the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

It is not clear what information the Iranian military could gleam from the footage, but it displays Iran?s naval power in water.

Iran?s Navy Commander Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the action shows that Iran has ?control over the moves by foreign forces? in the area where Tehran is holding a 10-day military exercises.

?An Iranian vessel and surveillance plane have tracked, filmed and photographed a US aircraft carrier as it was entering the Sea of Oman from the Persian Gulf,? Sayyari said.

He added that the ?foreign fleet will be warned by Iranian forces if it enters the area of the drill.?

The Iranian TV showed what appeared to be the reported video.

The Iranian exercise is taking place in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz ? the passageway for 40% of the world?s oil supply.

Beyond it lie vast bodies of water, including the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The US Navy?s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet is also active in the area, as are warships of several other countries that patrol for pirates there.

Lt. Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the U.S. 5th Fleet, said the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay headed out from the Persian Gulf and through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, after a visit to Dubai?s Jebel Ali port.

Thursday?s report follows US warnings over Iranian threats to choke off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz if Washington imposes sanctions targeting Iran?s crude exports.

In response, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami rejected the warning.

?The US is not in a position? to affect Iran?s decisions, Salami told FNA on Thursday. ?Iran does not ask permission to implement its own defensive strategies.?

Also, Iranian warships shooed away the military chopper of a western country which was approaching the Iranian Navy?s wargame zone on Sunday.

?Yesterday, a chopper which belonged to the trans-regional countries tried to approach the region of Velayat 90 exercises, but it left the area when it received a serious warning after it ignored two other warning signals of our units,? Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Navy Admiral Seyed Mahmoud Moussavi said on Monday.

Admiral Moussavi declined to mention any further details about the development, but the United States, Britain and France are the only trans-regional powers who have deployed troops in the region.

Iran?s naval forces started massive wargames in international waters in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean on Saturday.

The naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 are due to cover an area stretching from the East of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden for 10 days.

Moussavi reminded that according to the international rules, the military units of the trans-regional states are not allowed to enter the exercise zone.

During the wargames, the Iranian naval forces will display their latest equipment, achievement and tactics.

In May 2010, Iran?s air-defense units shooed away a US military reconnaissance plane which was seeking to approach the Iranian Army?s wargame zone in the Strait of Hormuz and Northern Indian Ocean.

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Source: http://theintelhub.com/2011/12/30/iranian-troops-track-record-video-of-us-aircraft-carrier/

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