US warns merchant ships of possible Iranian attacks.
Iran could target US commercial ships including oil tankers, the US Maritime Administration said on Friday, as a senior Iranian cleric said a US Navy fleet could be"destroyed with one missile".
Trump made the offer as he increased economic and military pressure on Iran, moving to cut off all Iranian oil exports this month while beefing up the US Navy and Air Force presence in the Gulf. Iran has dismissed both moves - which the United States said it took after US intelligence signalled possible preparations by Tehran to attack US forces or interests - as"psychological warfare" designed to intimidate it.
"Iran or its proxies could respond by targetting commercial vessels, including oil tankers, or US military vessels in the Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, or the Persian Gulf," MARAD said. Vice-Admiral Jim Malloy, commander of the US Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, told Reuters on Thursday its forces were on a heightened state of readiness, although the US military was not seeking or preparing for war with Iran.
Iran responded by relaxing some curbs on its nuclear programme concerning material stockpiles but continues to comply with commitments to restrict its uranium enrichment activity.The semi-official ISNA news agency quoted hardliner Ayatollah Tabatabai-Nejad in the city of Isfahan as saying:
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