"The decision to send the Pentagon’s new ship to the Persian Gulf is not unusual." Hossein Salami

Representative of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps January 21, said that finding U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf is not unusual. Word of the deputy commander Hossein Salami body transmits Reuters.

“American ships and military forces are in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East for many years. The decision to send the Pentagon’s new ship is not unusual, it should not be viewed as part permanent U.S. presence in the region “- said Salami.

These words are radically different from the previous reaction of Iran to move U.S. Navy ships. Once in December 2011, nuclear aircraft carrier, “John Stennis’ left the Arabian Sea waters, Tehran threatened to Washington ” response “if the Persian Gulf will return to another ship. However, after the waters Arabian Seabecame an American aircraft carrier “Abraham Lincoln” .

Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said recently that the United States, as before, are going to keep an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf and another one – in the north Arabian Sea. On the history of the agency Lenta.ru.