Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday unveils a new high-speed vessel the force says is capable of carrying a helicopter and up to 100 people, Iranian state TV reports.
The report follows a series of close encounters between American warships and Guard vessels in the Persian Gulf.
The TV shows a catamaran-type ship described as 55 meters (180 feet) long and 14 meters wide, carrying a light civilian helicopter, while the official IRNA news agency said its speed capability is 28 knots.
The vessel is painted with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s call for US forces to “Go back to the Bay of Pigs.” In May, Khamenei criticized the US presence in the Persian Gulf region in an apparent reference to the 1961 failed invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs by 1,500 CIA-trained exiles.
During Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony, Guard navy chief Adm. Ali Fadavi denounces American presence in the Gulf, saying it “is a cause of insecurity and lawlessness.”
— AP
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