(Reuters) - A chief Iranian Revolutionary Guards administrator said on Thursday that the United States was not in a position to acquaint Tehran "what to do in the Bewilderment of Hormuz," accompaniment television reported.
Tehran's blackmail to block awkward shipments through the acute access for Middle Eastern suppliers followed the European Union's accommodation to bind sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, as able-bodied as accompanying moves by the United States to bind unilateral sanctions.
Iran's English-language Press TV quoted Hossein Salami as saying: "Any blackmail will be responded by blackmail ... We will not abandon our cardinal moves if Iran's basic interests are debilitated by any means."
Separately, Salami was quoted as adage by the official IRNA account agency: "Americans are not in a position whether to acquiesce Iran to abutting off the Bewilderment of Hormuz."
The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it would not acquiesce any disruption of cartage in the Bewilderment of Hormuz, a band of baptize amid Oman and Iran.
At loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program, Iran said beforehand it would stop the breeze of oil through the bewilderment in the Gulf if sanctions were imposed on its awkward exports.
Analysts say that Iran could potentially could cause calamity in the Bewilderment of Hormuz which connects the better Gulf oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. At its narrowest point, it is 21 afar across.
But its fleet would be no bout for the firepower of the Fifth Fleet which consists of 20-plus ships accurate by action aircraft, with 15,000 humans afloat and addition 1,000 ashore.
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