Warning to the US regarding the possibility of targeting two of its cargo ships in the Red Sea, Tehran responded with a relevant video. The two ships have long been suspected of being of use as operational bases for Iranian commandosafter the US and UK campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

Iran’s statement on the Behshad and Saviz ships seems to demonstrate Tehran’s growing concern about the US-British strikes in recent days in Iraq, Syria and Yemen targeting the Houthis who are supported by the Islamic Republic.

The Behshad and Saviz are registered as commercial cargo ships to a Tehran-based company that the US Treasury Department has approved as a “front office” for the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, the Times of Israel reports. The Saviz, and then the Behshad, have been sailing for years in the Red Sea off Yemen, and are suspected of being used as spy bases for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

In fact, in the video statement of Iran’s regular army, a narrator for the first time describes the ships as “floating arsenals”.

The narrator claims that Behshad is helping an Iranian mission to “fighting piracy in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden”. However, Iran not known to participate in any of the recent campaigns against Somalia’s growing piracy in the region in the shadow of Houthi attacks.

The Iranian statement ends with a warning while footage of American warships to be targeted.

Washington intends to proceed with additional strikes against Iranian-backed organizations in the Middle East, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said today, in the shadow of Iranian threats.

The US and Britain they hit 36 ​​targets of the Houthis in Yemen yesterday, Saturday, in the second day of major US operations against Iran-linked groups following a deadly attack that killed three US servicemen in Jordan last weekend.

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