Iranian MP tells Euronews Tehran's missiles will strike Europe if US uses its bases there

Iranian lawmakers have threatened missile strikes on European countries hosting US military bases, as state-run media warned on Wednesday that any renewed confrontation with the US could reach "the heart of Europe".

"If America uses its bases in Europe, including in Italy and Germany, Iran's missiles will be fired towards Europe," Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of parliament's National Security Committee, told Euronews.

"In the two previous wars we did not do this, but this time we will not let Europe's assistance to America for an attack on Iran go without consequence;" Ardestani added.

Asked whether Europe was entering a new phase of war with Iran, Ardestani said European countries had already been at war with Iran in the previous phase by allowing their bases to be used.

He said Iran would strike any base used against it and would also target "the material and non-material assets of countries that assist America."

A second committee member, Fada Hossein Maleki, said Iran had prepared a new approach and scenario for any renewed conflict that he believed would surprise both the US and European countries.

The IRGC issued a statement on Wednesday — the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, marked in Iran as "the day of fighting global arrogance" — pledging "an immediate, effective response without geographical limits to every level and type of threat."

The statement cited orders attributed to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei calling for updating Iran's "target bank" and placing "the enemy's material and non-material assets within range."