The naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have struck four commercial ships attempting to navigate the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.
\n\nIran has threatened to target oil installations, undersea cables, datacentres and artificial intelligence facilities across the Gulf if the United States and Israel launch fresh attacks, warning that its response would extend beyond conventional military targets.
\n\nMohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran would pursue a broader plan if hostilities resumed, according to a report by The Guardian.
\n\nMehdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, also warned that Tehran would impose “zero red lines” in a future conflict, which he described as an existential threat to Iran.
\n\n“We see the next conflict as an existential threat. The third war in two years means a threat to existence. Our strategy is ‘zero red lines’,” Mohammadi said.
\n\nHe added that any renewed conflict would last longer and spread across a wider geographical area than Iran’s adversaries anticipated.
\n\nIran Warns Of Wider Regional Targets
\n\nIranian media quoted Rezaei as saying that cables, datacentres and AI facilities could be targeted in a new war.
\n\n“There can be no arrangement in…
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