Iran’s military has issued a stark warning that any US ground invasion would end in catastrophic consequences, declaring that American troops would become “good food for the sharks of the Persian Gulf.”

According to a statement by the spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters, Iranian forces are prepared to respond decisively if threats by US President Donald Trump materialize.

Lieutenant-Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari said Iran’s military is “counting down the moments” for the annihilation of US forces should any ground attack or occupation attempt be launched.

“Trump… has repeatedly threatened Iran with ground operations and the occupation of some islands in the Persian Gulf,” he said, adding that such ambitions are “nothing but a pipe dream.”

Iranian forces, he said, have long been awaiting such a move to demonstrate that “aggression and occupation will have no result other than disgraceful captivity, dismemberment, and the disappearance of the aggressors.”

The warning comes amid media reports suggesting the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, should the current bombing campaign fail to achieve its objectives.

In response to these threats, Iran has reinforced its defensive positions across the country, particularly along the strategic southwestern border with Iraq, where US bases are located, and in the southeastern region near the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani has issued a strong warning to the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, stating that Iranian forces are prepared to retaliate if the vessel re-enters the region. 

Speaking at a meeting with personnel from missile, drone, and air defense units on Sunday, Irani said that during previous operations, the Iranian Navy had targeted the carrier group, including the USS Abraham Lincoln and one of its accompanying warships.

He said that Iranian missile capabilities forced US forces to reposition repeatedly, moving hundreds of miles away from Iran’s territorial waters.

The commander also warned that if the carrier group again comes within range, Iran would launch various shore-to-sea missile systems along the Makran Coast, vowing to avenge the “blood of the Dena martyrs.”

The IRIS Dena was brutally attacked on March 4 in international waters while returning from a multinational naval exercise in India, an event it had been officially invited to attend. Eighty four Navy men were martyred in the attack.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf has lauded the Iranian people for their mass rallies in support of the armed forces defending the country against an illegal act of aggression, saying the anti-Iran plot backfired due to national unity.

He made the remarks in a message released on Sunday, the 30th day of the unprovoked military assault by the US and the Israeli regime that has sparked Iran’s retaliatory operations.

Qalibaf said that he bows to the Iranian nation, who took to the streets over the past 30 days in support of the country’s armed forces and the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei.

“The street in the past 30 nights was the manifestation of social power of a nation that does not know failure, remains invincible, and does not tolerate the language of force,” he added.

“The enemy did know that the street itself is a sweeping front of the great nation against history’s criminals. Now, the enemy has realized it [this fact] and is angry and distressed about the street.”

The top parliamentarian also said the enemy thought the war would divide the society and put people in front of each other.

Everything is very clear and obvious. We all know what is right and what is wrong? We should not deceive ourselves. We all know that oppression is bad and justice is good. We know what is unjust and what is just.

A conscientious person can never justify his wrongdoing action. In fact, if he does so, he is lying and deceiving himself.

We Muslims, in addition to reason, logic, conscience, and nature, thank God, have the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet, which help us find the right path.

The Quran says in Surah Al-Ma’idah, verse 51: “O you who have believed! Do not take the Jews and the Christians as your friends. They are friends and supporters of one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends is one of them. Indeed, Allah does not guide the unjust.”

Question: Why do the Arab rulers support America and Israel? Have they not read the Quran? Don't they know the history of Islam and the hostility of the Jews towards the Prophet of Islam?

Israel committed genocide in Gaza with the support of America?

So why don't the Arab rulers support their religious brothers and sisters in Palestine?

Why don't they support the people of Lebanon?

Now why do they support America and Israel?

It's a very strange story?

Don't they know what is right and what is wrong?

Why don't the people of these countries protest against this wrongdoing of their leaders?

While the Muslims of more distant and non-Arab countries like Malaysia and Indonesia are better than them. They are fairer and wiser. Their leaders are also better than the leaders of Arab countries. While they are less proficient in Arabic and the Quran, it seems that they have learned more Quranic teachings than the people of Arab countries. The people of these countries demonstrated against the wrong policies of America and Israel and showed their protest. May God reward them well. God willing

Arezu Zarezadeh

In 1220 AH, the Wahhabis took over the city after a year and a half of siege, resulting in a famine in Medina. According to available sources, after the surrender of Medina, Saud bin Abdul Aziz confiscated all the property in the treasury of the Prophet's Shrine and also ordered the destruction of all the buildings and domes of Medina, including the Baqi Cemetery. Accordingly, the shrine of the four infallible Imams (a.s.) and the dome attributed to Hazrat Fatima (a.s.), which was called the "House of Sorrows", were destroyed or seriously damaged in the first Wahhabi attack in 1220 AH.

After this incident, the Ottoman government sent an army to occupy Medina and retake it from the Wahhabis, and in Dhul-Hijjah 1227 AH, it took back control of Medina. Accordingly, Mahmud II, the 30th Ottoman Sultan, ordered the reconstruction of the shrines in 1234 AH.

The Wahhabis attacked Medina again in Safar 1344 AH. In this attack, damage was caused to the Prophet's shrine and religious sites. Seven months later, in Ramadan 1344 AH, Sheikh Abdullah bin Bulayhid (1284-1359 AH), who was the Chief Judge of Mecca from 1343 to 1345 AH, entered Medina and, after consulting the Muftis of Medina, received an order to destroy the graves.

On the 8th of Shawwal 1344 AH, all the historical monuments of Baqi', including the tombs, were destroyed by the fatwa of Sheikh Abdullah Bulayhid, the Saudi Chief Judge, relying on the fatwa of the Muftis of Medina. In the aforementioned fatwa, 15 of the Muftis of Medina unanimously prohibited the construction of buildings on graves and ordered their destruction. However, contrary to the Wahhabi belief, the construction of graves, as is widely believed by Sunnis and Shiites, does not conflict with Islamic beliefs, and visiting the graves of religious leaders and the graves of believers is considered recommended.

Strange Statements of Faisal bin Farhan

Hussein_Shariatmadari

On Thursday morning, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan issued a long statement, instead of condemning the brutal and joint attacks of the United States and the Zionist regime on the Islamic country of Iran from the position of a seemingly Muslim country! Or at least a humane one, he shamelessly condemned Iran's legal and natural reaction in attacking American and Zionist bases in the region! His statements are so absurd and in conflict with the basic principles of Islam and humanity that it can be said without a doubt that he has taken the tongue of his American and Israeli masters and put the dictates of those germs of corruption and ruin on paper. Read!

1- He writes; "Iran has violated the principles of good neighborliness with its neighbors"! And he does not explain, did Iran violate the good neighborliness or did Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and some other Arab countries that have made their territory available to the US and the Zionist regime for a brutal attack on Iran?!

2- He says; “Iran claims to support the Islamic world, but it attacks [it]”! Which must be asked;

First; In which Islamic teachings is cooperation with the US and Israel, who are the open enemies of Islam, to attack a Muslim country militarily, considered permissible, while Saudi Arabia commits this crime on the one hand and at the same time considers itself an Islamic country?! How can this contradiction be explained?!

Second; Certainly, the people of Saudi Arabia are Muslims, but its current rulers have shown that they have not smelled Islam! And they are more similar to the Zionists than to Muslims!

Third; The recent crimes of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and some other countries in the region have left no doubt for the Muslim nations living in these countries that the rulers of these countries are not worthy of ruling over them, and it is unlikely that Mr. Faisal bin Farhan has not seen signs of the Muslim nations’ revolt against the puppet rulers of America and Israel!

3- Bin Farhan has said in a ridiculous claim: “We tell Iran; neither the Saudi Kingdom nor the Persian Gulf countries accept blackmail and will not submit to it”! He has forgotten that Saudi Arabia ransomed hundreds of billions of dollars of the public wealth of this country to the United States and in return received a medal from Trump, “Cash Cow”! And he did not dare to protest this humiliation in the slightest!

4- Bin Farhan, pointing out that a political response to Iran, like non-political responses, is available; claimed: “If Iran believes that the Persian Gulf countries are unable to respond, it is mistaken. Iran’s attacks on its neighbors will have consequences.” It is not clear which “non-political” response he is talking about. The highest type of non-political response is a military attack that the United States and Israel, as the masters and owners of Saudi Arabia, have launched! But if he means an independent military attack on Iran by Saudi Arabia! In one sentence, it should be said that “if he had been strong and powerful, he would have straightened his back”!

5- One of the funniest parts of Mr. Faisal bin Farhan’s statements is where he condemned the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to ships and vessels affiliated with hostile countries! It should be said that while Trump and European countries have expressed their inability to open the Strait of Hormuz and Trump’s request for help from America’s allied countries to open this strategic strait has been met with a response mixed with fear, it is in Mr. Faisal bin Farhan’s interest to keep his mouth shut and remain silent! And to remember;

"Where an eagle sheds its feathers, what can a gnat do to grow thin?"

Former Director of the Iran Desk in Israeli Military Intelligence: If the US Takes Further Action Against Iran, the Yemenis Will Enter the War by Closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait and Blocking Saudi Oil

Danny Citrinovich:

I have no doubt that eventually the Houthis (Ansar Allah) will come in and do two things. First, close the Bab al-Mandab Strait and second, prevent Saudi tankers from entering the port of Yanbu to transport oil.

If the situation escalates or Trump attacks energy facilities, the Iranians may show the world a higher level of economic pain by closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

The Iranian regime is not as eager for a deal as Trump says, and we are not in a position where the Iranians will surrender.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly detailed how the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, came under a coordinated 17-angle attack by Iranian armed forces in the Red Sea.

Delivering a speech at a Saudi investment forum in Miami on Friday, Trump described the moments leading up to the attack as “a serious situation” for the US Navy.

He said the naval forces were prepared, but the intensity of the attack by Iranian naval forces quickly escalated the situation.

“It was one o’clock in the morning,” Trump said, when the warship came under attack “from 17 different angles.”

“We knew we were in trouble,” the president admitted.

“They were here, they were there.

We ran for our lives, it was over,” Trump said, citing one of his Navy commanders who was on board at the time the warship came under attack.

The US Navy's most advanced and largest supercarrier, which was deployed to West Asia ahead of US-Israeli joint military aggression against Iran, was engulfed in flames earlier this month.

Following the incident, the aircraft carrier retreated from its positions to the Greek island of Crete, as the Pentagon attempted to frame the withdrawal as a mere mishap.

US officials claimed that the ship was limping for repairs after a "non-combat-related" fire broke out in the ship's main laundry spaces.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) rejected the Pentagon’s narrative as absurd, asking, "What kind of military giant is this that faces a crisis and is forced to leave the battlefield due to a fire occurring in its laundry room?"

The IRGC had already warned that the presence of the aircraft carrier in the Red Sea made it a legitimate target for the Iranian armed forces, as its presence in regional waters constitutes a direct threat to Iran.

Iran’s armed forces have previously reported successful drone and missile strikes against another US carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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The Yemeni Armed Forces says it has officially joined the war against the US-Israeli front in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Resistance Front in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine.

“In implementation of what was stated in the last statement of the Yemeni Armed Forces regarding direct military intervention in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the resistance fronts in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, and in view of the continued military escalation, the targeting of infrastructure, and the perpetration of crimes and massacres against our brothers in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine,” the Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement on Saturday.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out the first military operation using a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting sensitive Israeli military sites in southern occupied Palestine, it added.

This operation, it added, coincided with the heroic operations carried out by Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“By the grace of Allah Almighty, the operation successfully achieved its objectives,” it noted.

It further said that the operation will continue until the aggression against all fronts of the resistance ceases.

On Friday, Saree had warned that they are prepared for direct military intervention if American-Israeli aggression against Iran and the Axis of Resistance continues to escalate.

The statement came nearly a month into the launch of the United States' and the Israeli regime's latest bout of unprovoked aggression targeting the Islamic Republic, which has run in tandem with the escalation of their attacks on regional resistance groups.

According to Saree, in addition to the continuation of the escalation, other factors potentially prompting an intervention by the Yemeni servicemen would include other parties' participation in the ongoing aggression, and the use of the Red Sea to carry out hostile operations against the Islamic Republic or any other Muslim country. "We will not allow that," he asserted.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned against the Israeli regime’s “vicious” plans to expand the ongoing war with the Islamic Republic to countries across the region.

In a telephone conversation with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday, Pezeshkian said regional countries should remain cautious to ensure that their territory is not used by aggressors to attack other Muslim countries.

It is regrettable that the aggressors are using some Muslim countries’ territory to carry out attacks against Iran, he added.

“Iran’s defensive response to the origin of these attacks is natural while the Islamic Republic considers Muslim countries as its brothers and does not wish for even a single Muslim to be harmed,” the president emphasized.

Pezeshkian noted that Muslim countries enjoy religious and human bonds and a vast capacity to confront common threats, particularly those arising from the Israeli regime.

He expressed appreciation for the Pakistani people’s support and solidarity with Iran in the face of the US-Israel military aggression and hailed great efforts by some friendly and neighboring countries, including Pakistan, to stop the imposed war.

He slammed attacks on Iran’s economic and energy infrastructure despite claims and promises by American officials, saying, “Definitely, such contradictory statements and actions have led to Iran’s increased distrust toward the aggressor United States.”

The US and Israel started a fresh round of unlawful military aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country. The attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several military commanders.

Iran has carried out extensive retaliatory attacks on Israel and US with missiles and drones, hitting targets in the Israeli-occupied territories as well as US military assets in regional countries.

The Pakistan prime minister, for his part, reiterated his country’s principled stance on condemning the US-Israel military aggression against Iran and strongly condemned the Israeli attacks on Iran’s economic infrastructure in the cities of Ahvaz and Isfahan.

On Friday, the United States and the Israeli regime carried out separate attacks on Isfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company and Khuzestan Steel Company -- two main Iranian steel companies in the central and southwestern provinces of Isfahan and Khuzestan.

One person was killed and two others injured in the attack on parts of the electricity facility of Isfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company in the city of Mobarakeh in Isfahan.

Sharif also commended measures taken by Iran to ensure the safe passage of commercial vessels of some countries, including Pakistan, through the Strait of Hormuz, expressing hope that this process will continue.

Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva Ali Bahreini said on Friday that the Islamic Republic has agreed to the safe passage of aid ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

He added that Tehran, in line with its longstanding principles of humanitarian law and in respect to the request from the United Nations, has made the decision to facilitate and further hasten the safe passage of vessels carrying humanitarian goods through the strategic waterway.

The Pakistani premier also emphasized that any dialogue between Tehran and Washington must take place based on trust and mutual respect which requires an end to military aggression and the killing of Iranian officials and civilians.

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