Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issues a warning to target US sites in the Middle East if Iranian tankers and other commercial vessels are attacked, Iranian media report. In the message, the IRGC says any attack on Iranian tankers and commercial ships would be met with a “heavy attack” on an American centre in the region and on “enemy ships.” The reports come as Washington waits for Tehran’s response to its latest negotiating position for a peace deal, according to multiple outlets.
The threat follows US action described by several sources as occurring a day earlier, when US strikes hit two Iranian tankers in the Gulf of Oman. While the outlets focus on the IRGC’s stated retaliatory stance and the timing relative to the tanker strikes, they do not provide additional independent details about the US proposals or the nature of the threatened US sites beyond the IRGC’s general language. The reports frame the developments as part of heightened tensions in the region and ongoing diplomacy between the United States and Iran.
