IRGC warns of ‘hellish’ response to renewed onslaught
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said that Iranian Armed Forces stand ready to deliver a “devastating and hellish” response to the enemy if it wages a new war of aggression against the country.
The IRGC General Command issued a message on Sunday, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the strategic Iranian port city of Khorramshahr on May 24, 1982, after 578 days of Iraqi occupation during the eight-year imposed war on Iran.
It said 44 years after the Khorramshahr historic epic, the Iranian nation once again emerged victorious after 40 days of resistance and retaliation in the third imposed war that caused the enemy to humiliatingly request a ceasefire.
“The country's powerful Armed Forces are at their highest level of readiness and active deterrence in all missile, air, naval, land, space, and cyber dimensions. Therefore, it is obvious that any renewed aggression by the enemy will result in a devastating and hellish response at the regional and extra-regional level,” it added.
Iran has witnessed three imposed wars over the past years, including the 1980s’ Iraq war, and two US-Israeli illegal acts of aggression, namely the 12-day one in June 2025 and this year’s 40-day one. The latest military assault against the country began on February 28 and stopped under a Pakistan-brokered ceasefire on April 8.
Meanwhile, commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Major General Ali Abdollahi said outsiders will have no place in the future of the region based on the strategies devised by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei.
“We warn the enemies that the Leader’s plans and strategies for ‘managing the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz’ will guarantee the future of the region and a new regional and international order within the framework of the strategy of a ‘strong Iran’, in which foreigners will have no place,” Abdollahi said.
He added that the Iranian nation’s dignity and greatness at the most sensitive juncture of the history of modern humanity and its resistance in the face of the US-Israel enemies marked “one of the most amazing historical events” and prepared the ground for a new geometry of global power centered on Iran.
“We stand fully prepared to deliver a harsh and hellish response to any form of aggression,” Abdollahi pointed out.