the united states is engaging in an economic warfare against iran. it has to stop. economic war means targeting iranian people. that has to stop. the united states does not have the legal position, does not have the moral positio, does not have the political position, does not have the international position to impose economic war on iran. iran is not interested in escalation. we have said very clearly that we will not be the party to begin escalation, but we will defend ourselves. now, having all these military assets in a small water way is in and of itself prone to accident, particularly when you have people who are interested in accidents. so extreme prudence is required and we believe that the united states is playing a very, very dangerous game. >> reporter: so you have the iranians saying that they believe the situation in the persian gulf still extremely dangerous at this point in time. of course, one of the big dangerous things for the entire region there is you have a lot of iranian and u.s. forces in