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A senior Iranian military official warned that any effort to board a Yemen-bound ship supposedly filled with aid supplies would spark a fire, amid speculation that Tehran is using the shipment to try to provoke an incident.

One U.S. official told Fox News the Iranian ship has media aboard.

"Iran is begging for us to board the ship. This is all for show," he said.

The lone Iranian cargo ship left Monday and continues to sail in the direction of Yemen. The ship is traveling just a few weeks after a convoy of Iranian ships, carrying weapons, was forced to reverse course after the U.S. Navy sent an aircraft carrier to trail the vessels.

This time, the Iranians claim the ship is carrying only relief supplies to Yemeni citizens, and so far U.S. military officials have not challenged these claims.

"The Iranians were not subtle last time. They had rocket launchers and other weapons on the decks of their ships, but we are not seeing the same thing now," a U.S. Navy official told Fox News.

However, U.S. officials cautioned that Iran might be trying to stage some sort of stunt all the same.

Adding to the tension, a top Iranian official warned the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemeni rebels not to intervene in the shipment.

"I bluntly declare that the self-restraint of Islamic Republic of Iran is not limitless," Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief of staff, told Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam state TV late Tuesday.

"Both Saudi Arabia and its novice rulers, as well as the Americans and others, should be mindful that if they cause trouble for the Islamic Republic with regard to sending humanitarian aid to regional countries, it will spark a fire, the putting out of which would definitely be out of their hands."

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