In a fresh threat, the US President Donald Trump announced that a massive US fleet is heading towards Iran and moving quickly.
“We hope Iran will come to the negotiating table.”
Our fleet heading towards Iran is larger than the one we sent to Venezuela, Trump said in a direct threat to the Islamic Republic.
A senior Iranian commander had said Iran’s enemies failed militarily and were then waging hybrid and cognitive warfare, stressing that any hostile move against the country would cause serious damage and heavy costs for the adversaries.
Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, deputy chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination, sounded the warning on Wednesday, stressing that the enemy knows that any adventurism will bring about heavy costs for them.
“When the enemy does not achieve results through military actions, it continuously exerts pressure in the realm of softwar and hybrid war; however, we are not inexperienced in this field. The country’s officials and our people are familiar with the concepts of softwar, hybrid war, and cognitive war, and they know that the only way to counter the enemy’s tricks under current conditions is unity, cohesion, coordination, empathy, and mutual support,” he said.
Admiral Sayyari stressed that the enemy has sought to break this unity, but the Iranian people has always neutralized the enemy’s tricks in a timely manner, adding that the enemy is trying to undermine this cohesion and empathy, but would certainly fail, because the people of Iran are aware and insightful and know the enemy very well.
“The United States has been pursuing the implementation of gunboat diplomacy. They try to intimidate the other side by deploying large ships and extensive equipment and to convey the impression that they can inflict damage,” said the Iranian commander, on the display of US military power through the deployment of aircraft carriers.
The remarks by Admiral Sayyari came amid escalated rhetoric by US President Donald Trump, who recently threatened fresh military action against Iran in connection with what the latter described as the Islamic Republic’s handling of recent economic protests.
Washington has just deployed the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying strike group to West Asia near Iran, and Trump said on Tuesday that another US “armada” of naval vessels was sailing toward the Islamic Republic.
“It should not lead us into miscalculation when the enemy hypes up the arrival of one fleet and then says that another one was added. If an incident occurs, they can rest assured that they too will be damaged, and this damage will be heavy,” Admiral Sayyari stressed.
The senior Iranian commander said that it should not be assumed that the enemy has the upper hand merely because of advanced equipment, adding that during the eight years of the Iran–Iraq war in the 1980s, all resources had not been at the disposal of Iran’s enemy.
He added that Iran also possesses assets the enemy lacks, including faith, belief, initiative, creativity, and capabilities that were clearly demonstrated during the eight years of the Sacred Defense against Iraq as well as in the 12-day imposed war in June 2024.
Source: Al-Manar English Website