[don-o]

“The US and France’s aircraft carriers were within our range and if they had continued their unprofessional moves, they would have been afflicted with such a catastrophe that they had never experienced all throughout the history,” the IRGC Navy commander cautioned.

“They could have been shot, and if they were, they would have been destroyed,” he warned again.

Rear Admiral Fadavi reminded that the IRGC is in charge of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf and “exercises Iran’s right of sovereignty powerfully”.

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941023001131

[Hulka]

Yes. . .but that is not “locked on” as stated in the title.

[fivecatsandadog]

And hopefully, some “rogue” general in the Pentagon would order and launch an attack on Iran, the likes of which they have never seen (and will never see again).

[DiogenesLamp]

"The US and France's aircraft carriers were within our range and if they had continued their unprofessional moves, they would have been afflicted with such a catastrophe that they had never experienced all throughout the history," the IRGC Navy commander cautioned.

You would simply have committed suicide.

[Mariner]

With these types of pronouncements and threats, it's foolish to position our carriers north of Hormuz.

If we need to keep bombing in Iraq we can simply do that from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia or UAE.

That's not to say the Gulf should not be aggressively patrolled, just that a CVN is an excessive asset for the role.

[JimRed]

"They could have been shot, and if they were, they would have been destroyed," he warned again.

Multiple CIWS up and spinning?