AFP, Tehran, Dec 30, 2011 – Iran, which has been carrying out war games in the Strait of Hormuz over the past week, is to test fire shorter- and longer-range missiles in the key oil waterway on Saturday, the navy said.
’Shorter- and longer-range, ground-to-sea, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles will be tested on Saturday,’ navy spokesman, Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi, was quoted as saying on Friday by the ISNA news agency.
The move is likely to stoke tensions between Tehran and Washington, already running high over a warning by Iran this week that ’not a drop of oil’ would pass through the strait if Western governments followed through with planned additional sanctions over its nuclear programme.