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Iran’s military says US preparing to resume strikes
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In Short: Iran's military says it received intelligence that the US is preparing to resume strikes, threatening sustained retaliation.
Iran's military central command warned on Sunday that the US, backed by some regional countries, is preparing to resume actions against Iran, state media reported. The warning comes as US President Donald Trump is in a 'deciding mode' over Iran, considering options that include further military action, economic pressure, or a deal.
The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, which oversees Iran’s armed forces, stated that any US attack would trigger sustained strikes on US bases and interests in the region. The military also warned that regional countries supporting US aggression against Iran would be considered parties to the conflict.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Tehran for the UN General Assembly in New York, while Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told lawmakers that Tehran should use military force to push back its opponents before turning to diplomacy.
Ghalibaf added that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until Washington meets what Iran says are its commitments under an earlier agreement. Iranian officials are sending a deliberate two-track message, signaling openness to diplomacy while preparing for renewed fighting.
The war began in late February after joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran. With Iran already blockading most shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf's energy exports are now almost entirely cut off from global markets, adding to pressure on global oil prices.
The US Senate approved a war powers resolution preventing Trump from continuing hostilities against Iran, delivering the president a significant but symbolic rebuke over a conflict that has proven unpopular with the American public.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 23% of Americans believed the US was stronger because of the war with Iran, with nearly two-thirds thinking any truce with Tehran was unlikely to last.
The measure, which passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, would require the president to seek Congress’s authorization to use military force against Iran.
What this adds
The roadmap for Russian aircraft parts production in Iran was also announced, but this is seen as a continuation of existing collaborations between the two countries.
The State Department warned US citizens not to travel to Iran and urged Americans already in the country to leave immediately.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis claimed they had carried out strikes in Saudi Arabia, adding to regional tensions.
What's confirmed
- Iran Reportedly Informed that US Plans to Resume Action Iran received information that the United States, with the backing of some regional countries, was preparing to resume actions against Iran, the country's central military command said in a statement on Sunday, according to state media.
- The warning, issued on Sunday by the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, which oversees Iran’s armed forces, raises the prospect of a new round of fighting after months of reduced direct attacks.
- The military command said states that allowed their territory or facilities to support US attacks would be “considered complicit” and could face an Iranian response.
- Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Tehran on Sunday evening for the UN General Assembly in New York, state media announced, adding that he is making a brief stopover in Qatar.
- Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told lawmakers on Sunday that Tehran should use military force to push back its opponents before turning to diplomacy to secure any gains.
- Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until Washington met what Iran says are its commitments under an earlier agreement.
- The war began in late February after joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
What's still developing
- The roadmap also calls for Russia to help establish production in Iran of individual parts and assemblies for Russian aircraft.
- Russian authorities were instructed to determine which aircraft parts could be repaired or manufactured in Iran, identify Iranian companies capable of producing them, certify selected sites through Russia’s aviation regulator Rosaviatsiya and conclude a localization agreement.
- “The roadmap is not revelatory: people paying close attention to the relationship between Russia and Iran will see many collaborations between the two countries that have been public for years,” Korkiya said in written analysis provided to Fox News Digital.
- Tehran threatens retaliation as Trump weighs military action while Qatar pushes to revive talks.
- Keeping his options open, Trump reportedly told a Fox News reporter “very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future” and that the options he was considering were “wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal”.
- The State Department's warning tells US citizens not to travel to Iran and urges Americans already in the country to leave immediately.
- DUBAI — The Middle East is bracing for an escalation of violence after Iran claimed it had received intelligence that the United States was preparing for a renewed bombing campaign against the Islamic republic.
- On Saturday, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, who made major advances along Yemen's Red Sea coast after the country's civil war reignited this month, said they had carried out strikes in the Saudi capital Riyadh and on a major oil facility in the kingdom's Red Sea port of Yanbu.
- Iran warned on Sunday against any big new attack by the United States and its allies, saying it had information that such a move was being prepared, adding to the anxiety in a region already on edge after drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia.
- Nearly seven months into the US-Iran war, neither side has looked ready to make major concessions needed to end the fighting, and with global energy markets already stretched, the conflict continues to spill over into other crises around the region.
- Neither has supported previous war powers resolutions, which Democrats have been forcing votes on regularly since the war with Iran began.
- “Trump’s historic blunder in Iran will go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made, or any country has ever made,” the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said ahead of the vote on Tuesday.