From Swiss Info:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's navy can strike an enemy well beyond its shores and as far away as Bab al-Mandab, the southern entrance to the Red Sea that leads to the Suez Canal, an Iranian naval commander said on Thursday.
Naval Commander Mahmoud Mousavi also repeated Iran's assertion that it could control the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the strategic Gulf waterway that is on Iran's coast, Fars News Agency reported.
The United States, Iran's arch-foe which has a naval base in Bahrain on the Arab side of the Gulf, has not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to end a row over Iran's nuclear plans which Washington says is to make bombs. Tehran denies this.
"We have now attained the capacity to take our defence capability to the depth of the seas, oceans and the Red Sea and face the enemy at the Bab al-Mandab strait if the enemy should have an evil intention," Mousavi said.
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My Comment: Any attack against the shipping lines in the Persian Gulf will result in the intervention of almost every Navy in the world against Iran. Iran's speedboats and little frigates will be quickly wiped out. Its surface to ship missiles will cause damage against tankers, but then again this will invite air and missile strikes. The Iranian threat is mostly bluster ....