"We have a well-established professional communication channel with the Russians that has worked well and has kept our respective forces safe as we’ve operated in this very complicated airspace," Votel told reporters. "So I think there is something available that they [Iranians] could use right now."
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2 October 2018, 06:41 GMT
The statement addresses a Monday operation by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) when multiple ballistic missiles were fired at several terrorist targets in Syria’s Abu Kamal region, where the organizers of the September terrorist attack in Ahvaz, Iran were allegedly located.
The strike hit targets just a few kilometers away from positions of US troops, Tasnim news agency reported.
According to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani, Tehran sent the US military "an important signal" with the attack.
