Iran's warns economic warfare will be met by maritime exclusion zone
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, warned on Tuesday that Tehran would respond to what it calls US "economic warfare" by imposing a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Mohsen Rezaei, has warned that the United States' economic warfare will be met with a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf. Rezaei stated that this zone would extend to the edge of the current US naval blockade around Iranian ports. He also noted that Iran's military stance towards American forces has been "fundamentally recalibrated," likely referring to a recent Qassem Basir ballistic missile fired at US warships near the Strait of Hormuz, which US military officials reported evading.
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