Zarif: No Looming War between US, Iran

By Staff, Agencies

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he believed no military confrontation between Iran and the US is imminent, stressing that accidents like lack of communication with Iranian forces controlling the Strait of Hormuz could lead to conflict.

Zarif’s comments were released by The Independent's journalist, Negar Mortazavi, who talked to him at Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Zarif said he sees no possible war between the US and Iran as imminent but noted that the lack of communication between the American ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf with Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] in charge of controlling it on the Iranian side might result in military confrontation.

The IRGC, a major part of Iran's official Armed Forces, was recently blacklisted by the US.