IRGC Predicts Any country that attacks Iran will become the “main battlefield"
Any country that attacks Iran will become the “main battlefield,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops warned Saturday after Washington ordered reinforcements to the Gulf following attacks on Saudi oil installations it blames on Tehran.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes but the US says it has established the attacks involved cruise missiles from Iran and amounted to “an act of war.”
Washington approved the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia at “the kingdom’s request,” US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, the forces would be “defensive in nature” and focused on air and missile defense.
But IRGC commander Major General Hossein Salami said Iran was “ready for any type of scenario.”Tensions escalated between arch-foes Iran and the United States after last weekend’s attacks on Saudi energy giant Aramco’s Abqaiq processing plant and Khurais oilfield halved the kingdom’s oil output.
“Whoever wants their land to become the main battlefield, go ahead,” he told a news conference in Tehran.
“We will never allow any war to encroach upon Iran’s territory.
“We hope that they don’t make a strategic mistake,” he said, listing past US military “adventures” against Iran.
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