The Iran conflict threatened to boil over Saturday after a senior Iranian advisor threatened a “full-scale offensive operation” if U.S. airstrikes didn’t stop.
The ominous statements from Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, came after the United States finished a seventh day of airstrikes.
“If US strikes continue for several more days, we will move into a phase of full-scale offensive operations,” said Rezaei, who once served as the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
“Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses…and no political border will be safe,” he was quoted as saying by Iran’s news agency IRIB.
The two sides traded strikes which targeted bridges and other infrastructure, with Iran striking water and desalination plants in Kuwait, CNN reported.
Several American service members were injured in Iran’s retaliatory attacks, CBS News said Friday.
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