Tehran vows to 'crush' regional infrastructure if US hits Iranian sites

Iran said any US attack on the Islamic Republic’s infrastructure would trigger broader regional destruction, pledging to have its forces target infrastructure across the region that Tehran says has remained untouched due to its restraint.

Spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari said Tehran would not tolerate any US interference in the Strait of Hormuz, calling it an “inviolable red line”.

“If the recent threats by the president of the United States to target the infrastructure of the Islamic Republic are carried out,” Zolfaqari said, “all infrastructure across the region that has so far remained intact solely because of Iran’s restraint will be crushed under the strikes of Iran’s armed forces.”

He added that Iran’s response would not be “proportional” but “superior,” warning that any retaliation would be “more severe, more extensive, and more devastating than ever before.”

The warning came as both sides exchanged fresh strikes for the fifth consecutive day.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched two waves of ballistic missiles against a US military base in Jordan, while the Iranian military said it carried out drone attacks against US army facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain.

The IRGC said the strike on Jordan was in response to what it described as a US attack near a children’s cancer hospital in Iran.

“This barbaric attack ... caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalised children,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei Baghaei wrote on X, calling it “a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings.”

Euronews could not independently verify the claim.