Iran issued its sharpest warning yet against a threatened American strike on its energy infrastructure on Thursday, with a military spokesman vowing to destroy every piece of infrastructure still standing across the region if Washington follows through.
"If the recent threats by the empty-headed U.S. president to target the infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran are carried out, then everything that, out of Iran's restraint, has so far remained intact, namely all infrastructure in the region, will be crushed under the powerful blows of Iran's armed forces," said Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, in an official statement.
Zolfaghari also reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz remains what he called Iran's "invincible red line," declaring that Tehran would not permit the United States, as a foreign power outside the region, to intervene there under any circumstances. He added that Iran's response to continued American pressure would be "a severe, wide-scale, and unprecedented blow," and threatened to expand the fighting into additional fronts.
The warning came after Iranian state media reported an American strike overnight on Semnan Airport in the country's north, a region roughly 100 miles east of Tehran that is home to a major Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile base and Iran's ballistic missile production program. Explosions were also reported in Khondab and Khorramabad, and Iran's army separately warned that its response to continued strikes would exceed American expectations and could open entirely new fronts in the conflict.
The threats follow days of American warnings, including from President Trump himself, that the US military could strike Iranian energy infrastructure, including power plants, within the coming week unless Tehran returns to the negotiating table.
The Strait of Hormuz remains the central flashpoint of the crisis. Roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply transits the narrow waterway, and Iran regards control over it as a core security interest. In recent weeks, CENTCOM has accused Iranian forces of attacking multiple commercial vessels in the strait, a pattern that led Washington to reimpose a naval blockade backed by more than twenty warships and hundreds of military aircraft deployed across the Middle East.
International analysts have voiced growing concern that the escalating threats from both capitals signal a crisis far from resolution, with the potential for a wider regional conflict in the days ahead.
