Obama used secret channel to warn Khamenei
(Newswires, January 13) – The United States has used a secret communications channel to dispatch a diplomatic warning to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni about the Islamic republic’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the New York Times reports.
The Obama administration employed the secret hotline to Khameni "to warn Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a 'red line' that would provoke an American response, according to United States government officials," the Times' Pentagon correspondents Elizabeth Bumiller, Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt wrote Thursday.
The Times' sources would not describe the means of contact.
But analysts tracking military relations between the United States and Iran
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