“US Navy can’t seem to find its way around our waters,” Zarif tweeted. "Perhaps because it hasn’t figured out its name: Persian Gulf, as it's been called for 2,000 yrs longer than US has existed. Or maybe it doesn't know what it's doing in our backyard, 7,000 miles from home.”

Zarif published a photo of a map in his tweet showing the distance between America and the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasimi said in a statement a few days ago that the world today is indebted to the Islamic Republic of Iran's approach to peace, which helped establishing security in the region and the waters of the Persian Gulf.

"We will not be the initiators of any aggressive step, but we are entitled to defend ourselves according to international standards," he said.