Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said that an attack on oil tankers would trigger a heavy response targeting US bases and interests in the region.
The headquarters claimed that the US military had threatened to target three Iranian oil tankers. It said that Iran’s armed forces would respond to any attack on Iranian vessels by targeting US bases and interests in the region.
Monitoring capabilities in the Strait of Hormuz
Iranian Revolutionary Guards spokesman Hossein Mahbi also said that no means could deceive Iran’s monitoring capabilities in the Strait of Hormuz through technological methods.
Arguing that sovereignty in the Persian Gulf belonged to technologically superior Iranian youth, Mahbi called on the US to leave the region. The expression “Bay of Pigs” used in the statement referred to the bay in Cuba.
Timeline of tensions between the US and Iran
The statement said that the US and Israel had launched a war against Iran on February 28, and that Iran had responded by carrying out attacks on Israel and US targets in the region. It said that the clashes escalated again in the following months.
It said that Washington and Tehran had signed an agreement on freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz on June 18. However, implementation of the agreement stalled because of disputes over the security of the strait.
The statement said that the US resumed its attacks on Iran between July 8 and 24, while Iran targeted US military facilities and equipment in Arab countries.