Iran threatens wider war if US strikes persist: ‘No political border’ will be safe

A senior Iranian adviser threatened on Friday to launch a wider war in the Middle East following days of intense fighting, warning that “full-scale offensive operations” could resume if U.S. military strikes do not cease.

“Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses…and no political border will be safe,” Major-General Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said, according to several outlets, citing Iranian news agency IRIB.

U.S. forces launched a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Friday, hitting bridges around Bandar Abbas, a port city in the Persian Gulf where the Iranian Navy is headquartered.  

The fresh wave of strikes, which ended around 9:30 p.m. EDT, also targeted surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom).

“CENTCOM continues to hold Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief’s direction while fully enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports,” the military command posted on social platform X, adding that more than 50,000........

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