Opinion | Is US-Iran clash coming before Trump leaves office?
- The US and Israel have reportedly deployed submarines to the Gulf after Iran announced it would begin enriching uranium beyond agreed-upon limits
- The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned his country ‘will give our final words to our enemies on the battlefield’
Just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the US assassination of Iran’s charismatic General Qassem Soleimani of the Quds Force, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that his country would respond forcefully to any provocations.
“Today, we have no problem, concern or apprehension toward encountering any powers,” General Hossein Salami was quoted as saying last week at a Tehran University ceremony by The Washington Post. “We will give our final words to our enemies on the battlefield.”
Israeli military leaders are likewise preparing for potential Iranian retaliation over the November assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – an act Tehran blames on the Jewish state.
Both the US and Israel have reportedly deployed submarines to the Gulf in recent days. One of the submarines, the USS Georgia, is notably armed with 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and the US has also flown nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the region in a show of force.
