'Iran will respond to threats'

If there's a threat, Iran will reply to it using political and other methods, in order to protect its interests, Iran's Supreme Leader's assistant Seyed Yahya Safavi said, Fars reported.

Safavi made the remarks after U.S. has warned Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that any move to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz would amount to crossing the "red line" that would provoke an American response.

The warning was conveyed to the top Iranian brass through a secret channel, The New York Times reported quoting senior US officials, who declined to describe the unusual contact.

Iran has threatened that it would close the Strait of Hormuz, which is just 45 kms wide at its narrowest point and works as a crucial waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, in the event of a military strike or severe tightening of international sanctions on its oil exports.


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