Head of the Revolutionary Guards: Iran Able to Close Strait of Hormuz Easily

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are claiming they have tested a naval weapon that would destroy any vessel in range of 300 kilometres, Fars News Agency reported.
The comments were made as tensions have risen over Iran’s disputed nuclear program and after Iran failed to meet an informal deadline on Saturday to respond to a package of nuclear incentives offered by world powers aimed at defusing the row.
’The Revolutionary Guards have recently tested a naval weapon with a 300-kilometre range in which no vessel would be safe and would be sent to the depths,’ Guards commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted as saying.
Iran would easily be able to close the key oil shipping route of Strait of Hormuz if the country were attacked over its nuclear programme, the head of the Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Monday. Iran has ‘the possibility of closing the Strait of Hormuz easily and on an unlimited basis,’ state radio quoted Revolutionary Guards commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari as telling a news conference.
‘In view of the proximity of the Strait of Hormuz … to our shores, this distance is within the range of an assortment of weapons and its closure for us is very feasible and we face no limitations from the point of view of time,’ Jafari said.
Oil movement through the Strait of Hormuz, the sea channel along Iran’s coastline at the entrance to the Gulf, is estimated to account for roughly 40 percent of all seaborne oil traded, most of it going to Asia, the United States and western Europe.