Iran Plans to Build Statue Marking Capture of US Sailors

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard plans to erect a statue commemorating the capture of 10 U.S. sailors earlier this year, a move that is sure to test the fragile relationship between the adversarial nations. The comments were made last week by Ali Fadavi, head of the Revolutionary Guard's naval forces, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported. The Revolutionary Guard's naval forces are separate from the Iranian navy and report to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not its elected president, Hassan Rouhani. "There are very many photographs of the major incident of arresting U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf in the media, and we intend to build a symbol out of them inside one of our naval monuments," Fadavi was quoted as saying in state-run media reports. The statue will likely be built on the Iranian-controlled island of Kharg, a small tract in the Persian Gulf close to where the sailors were captured, the Telegraph reported. The monument could be included as a stop on the pro-military "Rahian-e-Nour" tour of historical locations from the Iran-Iraq war.