Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters issued a stark warning to Washington on Thursday, declaring any US military move in the Strait of Hormuz a “red line” and threatening sweeping, intensified strikes across the region if American threats are carried out.
Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the headquarters said Iran would not tolerate any foreign intervention in the strategic waterway.
“Under no circumstances and in no way will we allow America, as a foreign power outside the region, to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz. This is Iran’s inviolable red line,” the spokesperson stated.
The warning comes amid escalating tensions following US threats to target Iranian infrastructure. Tehran signaled that any such action would trigger a far-reaching response.
“If the recent threats by the US president to target the infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran are carried out… then everything that has remained intact so far… will be crushed under the blows of the powerful armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the spokesperson said, adding that regional infrastructure would be left “as if it had never existed.”
The statement added that Iran’s response to any such US attack would not be proportional.
“Let the ignorant enemy know that for us, this is not a moment of reckoning. What the Iranian armed forces are doing is not a retaliatory strike, but a superior one,” Brig. Gen, Zolfaghari said.
“These strikes will be more intense, broader in scope, and more destructive than ever before.”
Source: Al-Manar English Website