Iran threatens new war games in the oil lanes of the Gulf

The semiofficial Fars news agency late Thursday quoted the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's naval commander Adm. Ali Fadavi, as saying that the upcoming exercise would be the seventh staging of an annual drill called "The Great Prophet."Fadavi said the next round of war games would be "different" from previous ones. He did not elaborate. The admiral said the drill would take place in the Iranian month of Bahman, which roughly corresponds to February.The Guards, Iran's most powerful military force,

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