It comes after Senior U.S. military commanders on Wednesday accused Iran's military of "highly provocative" actions in firing unguided rockets 1,500 yards from ships including an American aircraft carrier.

Iran has denied American accusations that it conducted "provocative" rocket tests near US Navy vessels patrolling the Strait of Hormuz.

“The IRGC Navy has had no drill in the Strait of Hormuz over the past week during the time claimed by the Americans for launch of a rocket or missile,” head of the IRGC’s public relations office Brig. Gen. Ramezan Sharif said on Thursday.

After reports indicated that Washington is preparing sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile program, in a decree to Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan on Thursday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered an acceleration in Iran’s program for production of “various types of missile” needed to improve the country’s defense capabilities.

The Iranian president also warned that in case the US repeats such “wrong and interventionist” measures, the Iranian Defense Ministry must develop a new plan for expanding the country’s missile capabilities.

Meanwhile the US Navy resumed carrier-based airstrikes against ISIS targets after a nearly three month pause, the Department of Defense announced on Tuesday (December 30, 2015).

Washington claims that its military presence in Middle East aims eliminating ISIS (Daesh) in Syria and Iraq, but many Syrian and Iraqi people along with numerous experts believe that US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar created ISIS and at least US is not serious in fighting against ISIS.