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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/world/middleeast/iran-strait-of-hormuz-rockets.html
Iran's Missile Tests Remind the U.S. that Hostilities Have Not Ended
(New York Times) Helene Cooper and David E. Sanger - After two recent Iranian ballistic missile tests made clear that Tehran had no intention of obeying a UN prohibition on such launches, Obama administration officials on Wednesday handed Congress a draft list of fresh sanctions they are preparing against Tehran. The new sanctions are designed, administration officials say, to make clear that the U.S. remains committed to containing Iran's regional ambitions. The past few days have been full of sobering reminders that the grander objective of the nuclear accord - at least a cessation of hostilities between Washington and Tehran - remains a long way away. On Saturday, the Iranian Navy harassed the American aircraft carrier Harry S Truman and a French frigate in the Strait of Hormuz, launching rockets nearby in an act somewhere between recklessness and outright aggression.