Iran is prepared for a possible ground invasion by U.S. troops, the country’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday, as the war launched by the U.S. and Israel continues to escalate.
Araghchi told NBC News that Iran is ready to counter American forces after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to rule out the possibility of boots on the ground earlier this week
“We are waiting for them,” Araghchi said. “Because we are confident that we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them.”The military campaign, which is ongoing, prompted a wave of retaliatory strikes from Iran across the Middle East, reportedly hitting both U.S. military bases and civilian sites in Gulf states, killing dozens of people, including six U.S. service members.
The Trump Administration has signaled that the military campaign is likely to be more expansive than initially laid out.
Trump told the Daily Mail on Sunday that the campaign could last around four weeks, even as the war appears to be unpopular with most Americans and as foreign citizens stranded in the Middle East scramble to leave the region.
And U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said during a Thursday briefing that “the amount of firepower over Iran and over Tehran is about to surge dramatically.” FULL REPORT
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