AI Brief
- Iran warned that any military base supporting future US attacks would become a target for retaliation.
- Iranian military officials said their forces are on full alert and ready to respond without geographic limits.
- Tehran claimed it has expanded its list of potential targets and can reach enemy interests across the region.
MOHSEN Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, warned on Thursday that every military base involved in any renewed U.S. aggression against Iran will become a legitimate target for Iranian strikes.
"If the U.S. launches another war against Iran, every military base involved in the aggression -- from West Asia to Europe -- will be a legitimate target for Iran's lethal strikes," Rezaei wrote in a post on social media platform X.
"No safe distance. No safe haven. No immunity," he added.
Rezaei's warning echoed remarks made a day earlier by Kioumars Heydari, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces. In an interview broadcast by Iranian state television on Wednesday, Heydari said that the confrontation with the United States has evolved into a broad regional conflict, placing all enemy interests and military bases within the direct range of Iranian missiles and drones.
Heydari noted that Iranian forces are on full alert and prepared to deliver a decisive, immediate, and devastating response without geographical restrictions to any new act of aggression. Under such an approach, if an aircraft takes off from any country to strike targets in Iran, the Iranian Armed Forces will have the right to retaliate against corresponding targets within that country's territory.
Iran has prepared an expanded target list for potential future hostilities that extends well beyond previous conflict theaters and has no geographical limitations, Heydari said. He also claimed that there is currently no U.S. military presence inside the Persian Gulf and that U.S. forces have lost their advanced defense and radar systems in the region due to Iranian strikes.
