Iran warns of ‘offense and full destruction’ if US assaults proceed
Mohsen Rezaee, a senior navy adviser to Supreme Chief Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. (Picture: X/@clashreport) Iran warned Friday that it might abandon its present technique of retaliatory strikes and launch a broader offensive towards US forces if Washington continues its navy marketing campaign for an additional two to 3 days, marking one in all Tehran’s strongest escalation threats for the reason that battle started.
‘Diplomacy and negotiations are over’
Mohsen Rezaee, a senior navy adviser to Supreme Chief Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei and a prime IRGC official, posted the warning on X.
Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee:
If U.S. assaults proceed over the subsequent two to 3 days, the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will transfer past the stage of deterrence and retaliation and enter the section of “offense and full destruction,” such that U.S.… pic.twitter.com/T8E9IVCfQw
— Conflict Report (@clashreport) July 17, 2026
He stated diplomacy and negotiations, together with the present section of warfare, had been completed, and that if the US continued strikes for an additional two to 3 days, Iran would transfer into what he known as the stage of the enemy’s destruction.
He added that Iran would cease limiting its response to tit-for-tat retaliation, warning that no political border would supply security from Iran’s forces going ahead.
‘No political border will present safety’
Rezaee stated if Iran prompts this stage, it’ll not accept matching US strikes and can as a substitute pursue American bases and troops past their host international locations’ borders straight. He stated Iran’s assaults would develop extra intense within the coming days, framing the present standoff as a shift away from the “warfare and negotiation” strategy the US had been pursuing.
Why he warned now
The remarks observe the collapse of a 14-point memorandum of understanding that had briefly framed talks between the US and Iran. Additionally they come as each international locations proceed buying and selling strikes on one another’s navy property throughout the area, with Washington saying its purpose is to weaken Iran’s navy functionality and Tehran promising additional retaliation towards US forces and bases close by.
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The US launched a contemporary spherical of strikes on Iran Friday, marking the seventh consecutive night time of the marketing campaign. US Central Command stated on X that the strikes, launched at 3 p.m. ET, had been ordered by the commander-in-chief to maintain degrading Iran’s navy capabilities.
CENTCOM launched a spherical of strikes towards Iran at 3 p.m. ET at this time for the seventh consecutive night time. The strikes are designed to proceed degrading Iranian navy capabilities on the Commander in Chief’s course.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 17, 2026
Iranian state media reported three explosions in Sirik, a metropolis in Iran’s Hormozgan province, across the similar time.
