Iran called its recent military drills in the southwest of the country, near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, “a serious warning” to its enemies.
The annual military exercises, which involved helicopters, tanks, drones, ships, and speedboats, started on Sunday.
"This exercise is a serious warning to our enemies and those who have ill intentions towards Iran," the spokesman for the drills, Admiral Mahmoud Moussavi, was quoted as saying by the IRIB news agency.
The drill comes days after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced it had thwarted an attempt by the US Navy to seize a vessel carrying its oil in the Sea of Oman the previous week.
US defense officials denied the IRGC claim and said it was Iran which seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel.
