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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11739692" data-attributes="member: 92282">A US aircraft carrier entered a zone near the Strait of Hormuz being  used by the Iranian navy for wargames, an Iranian official said Thursday  amid rising tensions over the key oil-transit channel."A US  aircraft carrier was spotted inside the manoeuvre zone... by a navy  reconnaissance aircraft," Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi, the spokesman for  the Iranian exercises, told the official IRNA news agency.The Iranian aircraft took video and photos of the US vessel, he added.The US aircraft carrier was believed to the USS John C. Stennis, one of the US navy's biggest warships.US  officials announced Wednesday that the ship and its accompanying battle  group moved through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch at the  entrance to the Gulf that is the world's most important choke point for  oil shipments.After warnings from the Iranian government and navy  this week that Iran could close the strait if threatened by further  Western sanctions, the US Defence Department warned Wednesday that such  actions "will not be tolerated."<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/2904/53222390.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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