Mohsen Rezaei, March 2020 file: Khamenei.ir / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0, cropped)
Iran’s top security official Mohsen Rezaei has threatened to expand Iran’s response to any renewed U.S. attack to American military bases farther from the Middle East, including some in Europe.
In an interview reported Wednesday by Al Mayadeen, Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Iran would not limit itself to nearby bases if Washington attacked again. He warned countries hosting American forces against allowing their territory to be used for strikes on Iran.
“If the Americans make a mistake and attack us, we will not content ourselves with targeting nearby bases,” Rezaei said, according to Al Mayadeen’s account of its interview. He added that Iran would also target “distant American bases.”
His remarks were a conditional threat, not an announcement that Iran had launched an attack on a base in Europe. The interview report did not establish Iran’s ability to carry out the threatened strikes or identify specific European installations.
Rezaei also denied that negotiations with the United States were taking place and said Tehran was waiting for a clear American response to seven Iranian conditions. He tied reopening the Strait of Hormuz to Washington meeting those demands, describing an end to fighting on all fronts, particularly in Lebanon, as the first condition.
JBizNews Desk | Tehran
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