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Iran has warned that if the U.S. and Israel relaunch airstrikes, it will strike American bases, warships, airports, pipelines, and other civilian targets throughout the Persian Gulf, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Iran is believed to have hundreds to thousands of ballistic missiles and the country is believed to have resumed producing missiles since the Iran war began in February, analysts told the Journal.
“The consensus in Tehran now believes that deterrence requires imposing immediate, sustained and substantial costs on its adversaries,” said Sina Toossi, an Iran expert at the Center for International Policy, a Washington think tank.
Brig. Gen. Yadollah Javani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ deputy commander for political affairs, threatened that the IRGC could sever internet cables running beneath the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned in an opinion piece in the Financial Times that such attacks “will put civilian lives and the well-being of all regional states and the global economy at real risk.”
Farzin Nadimi, who works as an Iran-focused senior fellow for a think tank, said Iran will have to guard against U.S. and Israeli retaliation.
“They certainly have the capability to inflict major damage to the region’s energy and internet infrastructure,” he told the Journal. “But if Iranians do that, they’ll most likely lose their own in reciprocal attacks.”
President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. could strike Iran after the midterm elections. The U.S. and Israeli militaries have been preparing various attack options, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The country’s threats come as stockpiles of air-defense interceptors the U.S. and its allies in the Persian Gulf use have dwindled, while Israel’s interceptor supplies have also declined, the Journal reported.
The U.S. has sent a third aircraft carrier and an additional Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East and is working to get service members and diplomats out of harm’s way, the Journal reported.
The State Department has worked to get nonemergency U.S. government employees and their families out of Saudi Arabia amid attacks from the Houthis, the Journal reported.
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