IRGC Warns Conflict Will Spread ‘Far Beyond’ Middle East If America Attacks Again

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened that the war will spread “far beyond” the Middle East if the U.S. launches new military attacks against the regime. “If the aggression against Iran is repeated, the promised regional war will this time spread far beyond the region, and our devastating blows will crush you,” the IRGC said in a statement. The threat came after Vice President Vance said Washington and Tehran have made “a lot of progress” towards a nuclear deal but America is “locked and loaded” in case talks fall through. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Vance said: “We think that we’ve made a lot of progress. We think the Iranians want to make a deal.” When asked about reports suggesting Iran could send its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to Russia, Mr. Vance replied: “That is not currently the plan of the United States government. The Iranians have not raised it.”“It takes two to tango. We are not going to have a deal that allows the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon. So as the president just told me, we’re locked and loaded. We don’t want to go down that pathway. But the president is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to,” the vice president added. Washington still thinks the Iranians wants to make a deal, he said, adding that Mr. Trump has asked his team to “negotiate in good faith. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.”“There’s an option B, and option B is that we could restart the military campaign to continue to prosecute the case, to continue to try to achieve America’s objectives. But that’s not what the president wants. And I don’t think it’s what the Iranians want either,” Mr. Vance said. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, said he was “an hour away” from making the decision to strike Iran on Tuesday.“We were all set to go. We were going to be striking. It would have been happening right now,” Mr. Trump said.The president also suggested that a new deadline is on the table for Iran to make a deal or face military attacks. “Well, I mean, I’m saying two or three days, maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something, maybe early next week, a limited period of time, because we can’t let them have a new nuclear weapon,” he said.Iran’s army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia repeated his warning to the U.S. on Tuesday, saying: “If the enemy acts foolishly and once again falls into the trap of the Zionists and carries out another act of aggression against our dear Iran, we will open new fronts against them using new methods and capabilities.”Akraminia also said the only path forward would be for Iran’s enemies to “respect” the “legitimate rights” for Tehran to control the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, announced that American forces continue their “total enforcement of the U.S. blockade against Iran, stopping the flow of commerce into and out of Iranian ports. 89 commercial vessels have been redirected to ensure compliance.”

IRGC Warns Conflict Will Spread ‘Far Beyond’ Middle East If America Attacks Again

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