Russia and Iran criticise US Caspian task force as study outlines joint sanction evasion

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As Iran issued fresh warnings about a widening military confrontation, Moscow and Tehran reacted to the creation of a new task force by the US military to monitor land and sea transit routes north of Iran and in the Caspian Sea, expanding its blockade. Russia's Foreign Ministry described Washington's plan to form a task force to monitor and block Iran's trade and transport routes in the Caspian region as "a clear threat" to the rights and interests of the littoral states, adding that security in the Caspian Sea is an internal matter that concerns only the five states bordering it.