Tehran issues warning to regional neighbour if Iranian island occupied
Al Jazeera
Iran’s parliament speaker issues threat as US administration talks peace while committing more troops to conflict.
A senior official in Tehran has warned that intelligence reports suggest that “Iran’s enemies” are planning to occupy an Iranian island with support from an unnamed country in the region.
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said on Wednesday that any such attempt would be met with targeted attacks on the “vital infrastructure” of the regional country – which he did not name – that assists in the operation.
“Iranian forces are monitoring enemy movements, and if they take any step, we will attack vital infrastructure in that regional country in continuous and relentless attacks,” Ghalibaf said in two separate posts on social media.
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