Iran’s Security Chief Mohsen Rezaei Threatens Distant U.S. Bases and Islands if Washington Attacks Again

Iran’s top security official, Mohsen Rezaei, warned that any new U.S. attack on Iran could trigger strikes on American military bases far beyond the Middle East, including facilities in Europe and islands that Washington may consider beyond Iran’s missile range. ⠀ In an interview with Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television reported Wednesday, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Tehran would no longer restrict its response to nearby installations or targets it had attacked before. “We may target some islands that they believe are beyond the reach of our missiles,” he said. ⠀ Rezaei warned countries hosting American forces not to assist any renewed offensive. “We will consider any location from which American aircraft take off to be a threat to us,” he said. He added that distant U.S. bases, including those in European countries, could be targeted if aircraft departed from them to bomb Iran. ⠀ He also argued that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had exhausted the political support needed to sustain another war. According to Rezaei, they were now looking for a major objective they could accomplish in a three-to-five-day operation but had not found one. That timeline was his assessment, not an announced U.S. plan. ⠀ Rezaei said Iran had lifted earlier limits on its military responses during the conflict and would loosen them further if attacked again. He claimed Iran’s offensive and defensive capabilities had grown since the war began. ⠀ The warning came amid tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and stalled diplomacy. Rezaei said Tehran and Washington were not currently negotiating and that Iran was awaiting a clear U.S. response to its conditions for reopening the waterway.