Iran warns against proposed US-backed Red Sea force – ISNA

The Jerusalem Post reports: “Iran’s Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani warned that a proposed US-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face ‘extraordinary problems,’ official Iranian media reported on Thursday.

Ashtiani’s comments came after the United States said last week it was in talks with other countries to set up a task force following a spate of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on ships in the Red Sea.

‘If they make such an irrational move, they will be faced with extraordinary problems,’ Ashtiani told the official Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) in comments it published on Thursday.

‘Nobody can make a move in a region where we have predominance,’ he said, referring to the Red Sea…”

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