If U.S. President Donald Trump carries out his threat to strike Iranian infrastructure, Tehran will destroy all infrastructure in the region. This was stated by the spokesman of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Ibrahim Zolfaghari, as reported by UNN citing the Iranian agency Fars.
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In particular, he criticized Trump's recent statements, calling them "empty."
"If the latest empty threats of the U.S. president regarding the fact that the next strikes will be directed by the American military against the infrastructure of the Islamic Republic are carried out, then everything that, thanks to Iran's restraint, has remained intact so far, that is, all infrastructure in the region, will be destroyed by strikes of the Iranian armed forces to such an extent that not a trace of it will remain, as if it never existed,"
He also criticized the United States for continuing its "illegal actions to destabilize West Asia" and emphasized that Iran will never allow the United States — as a foreign, extra-regional country — to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz, which is an "inviolable red line" of the Islamic Republic.
"Let the ignorant enemy know: for us, the moment of epic actions is not a moment of restraint. What the Iranian armed forces will do will not be an equivalent strike; it will be a strike of greater power. The strikes will be more intense, larger, and more destructive than ever before. The fury of a nation that has never surrendered to the enemy will burn the aggressor," added the spokesman of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.
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Earlier, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated that negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are ongoing. She emphasized that the strikes were caused by Iran's violation of the memorandum, but President Trump is open to diplomacy.