{"id":487340,"date":"2026-06-11T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487340\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:01:13","slug":"iran-threatens-gulf-if-us-destabilized-strait-of-hormuz-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487340\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens Gulf if US destabilized Strait of Hormuz further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-899011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IRGC<\/a>) threatened the entire region with harsh consequences if the United States destabilized the Strait of Hormuz, state news site WANA reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Will you make the sacred Strait of Hormuz unsafe? We will turn the entire region into hell for you from across Iran,\u201d Brigadier-General Majid Mousavi, commander of the IRGC&#8217;s Aerospace Force, stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mousavi also added that his statement was a direct response to recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-899032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US strikes<\/a> in the region, and that Iran would act decisively if hostile action continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mousavi&#8217;s statements came after the Iranian military&#8217;s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be completely closed to all ships, and that any vessels attempting to pass through would be targeted.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Command (CENTCOM) denied that the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-898548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Strait of Hormuz<\/a> has been closed, asserting that &#8220;commercial ships are continuing to transit in and out of the Strait&#8221; in a post on X\/Twitter. Iran later disputed this claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">CENTCOM stated that it targeted Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communications systems, and air defense sites across Iran with precision munitions. The sites targeted posed a threat to US forces in the region and commercial ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, according to the US military.<\/p>\n<p>Goldie Katz and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened the entire region with harsh consequences if the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,53065,21453,43,114994,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-487340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}