[New York Times] Nazila Fathi - Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, warned Monday that Iran could easily close a critical oil route in the Persian Gulf, and that Iran had a new long-range naval weapon that could sink enemy ships nearly 200 miles away. "Closing the Strait of Hormuz for an unlimited period of time would be very easy," he said.
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