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Armed Forces warn US against ground invasion, strikes on nuclear sites
Iran’s Army chief warned the United States about any ground invasion while the highest military command cautioned against attacking the country’s nuclear facilities, saying that any violation of the Iran’s territorial integrity would be met with a swift and powerful response.
Major General Amir Hatami warned that any US military incursion would face a crushing military response, saying millions of Iranians would confront invading forces with everything at their disposal while the Armed Forces remain prepared for any act of aggression.
Speaking during a visit to various units of Army Ground Force, Air Defense Force, and Air Force in the central province of Isfahan on Wednesday, Hatami said hostile powers had exhausted every means available against Iran's military personnel but had failed to weaken their resolve.
“The enemy, driven by its hatred and animosity toward the Army's fighters, did everything within its power against them. But the warriors of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran remain standing tall,” he stressed, adding that the Armed Forces have continuously strengthened their combat readiness in anticipation of enemy aggression.
Referring to US expectations during its failed mission in southern Isfahan, Hatami said Washington had miscalculated the Iranian people's reaction.
“In the events in southern Isfahan, the Americans imagined that if they set foot on Iran, they would be welcomed. Instead, they were met with widespread hatred and the unparalleled steadfastness of the Iranian nation,” he noted.
General Hatami also warned that any foreign military incursion into Iran would be met with nationwide resistance.
“This proved to the enemy that if it sets its filthy foot on Iran's soil, it will face millions of people who will confront it with whatever they have in their hands,” the Army’s chief emphasized.
Iran’s highest military command, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, also sternly warned the US against acting on its threat of attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“The criminal United States has threatened to attack the nuclear facilities and other sensitive sites of the Islamic Republic,” the headquarters said in a statement.
“It is hereby declared that, should the aggressor and terrorist military of that country proceed to such a stage, we will consider it an expansion of the war in the region,” it added.
“Consequently, all interests of the United States, as well as those of its allies and supporters of that rogue and malign state, will become targets of powerful [retaliatory] attacks by the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic.”
The warning came after US President Donald Trump said, during a meeting with Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun, that the US would target Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site “pretty soon.”
It was not the first time Trump was coming up with such a threat.
“The repeated US attacks and threats against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities not only constitute a flagrant violation of the core principles of the UN Charter, international law, and the relevant resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors, General Conference, and UN Security Council, but also reveal the United States’ deep-rooted enmity toward Iran’s scientific progress and technological development,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a post on X following Trump’s remarks.
“Washington’s obsessive focus on Kolang Kouh (Pickaxe Mountain) where no nuclear activity is taking place is nothing more than a fabricated pretext for aggression, destruction, and sabotage,” he said.