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A hardline Iranian lawmaker has threatened a "military response" to US naval blockade activity in the Strait of Hormuz.
Ali Khezrian, a member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee, told state television that the US should provide "several escorts" for its destroyers so that American sailors can be rescued in the event that their ship sinks.
"From now on, US actions for naval blockade will be met with a military response from Iran," Khezrian said in an interview with Iran's state broadcaster, IRIB.
His comments come after the US military on Friday disabled two Iranian tankers that were trying to breach the blockade. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump praised the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, claiming that "nobody" would challenge it.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the blockade on Thursday, calling it an "expansion of military action."
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