Iran has threatened to destroy US military bases and aircraft carriers in the Gulf if they ‘make a mistake’. A commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Nejat, said on Tuesday the U.S. regional bases are in range of Iranian missiles, the Tasnim news agency reported. The threat comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, which has sharply increased in recent weeks.  A commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Nejat, (pictured) said on Tuesday the U.S. regional bases are in range of Iranian missiles, the Tasnim news agency reported A year after the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, tension between the two nations remain high, with dispute over oil tanker explosions and Tehran’s uranium enrichment program (Pictured: Smoke billowing from Norwegian owned Front Altair tanker said to have been attacked in waters of the Gulf of Oman) ‘American bases are within the range of our missiles … Our missiles will destroy their aircraft carriers if they make a mistake,’ said Hossein Nejat. ‘Americans are very well aware of the consequences of a military confrontation with Iran.’ A year after the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, tension between the two nations remain high, with dispute over oil tanker explosions and Tehran’s uranium enrichment program. A Ukrainian tanker carrying Iranian oil was seized by US-backed Egypt in the Suez Canal ten days ago, it emerged yesterday.It comes a day after six ‘spies for Iran’ were locked up by an Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court. The men were jailed for between [More]