‘We will crush you’: Iran Armed Forces warn Iraqi Kurdistan against cooperation with US, Israel

The spokesman for the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces issues a stark warning to the senior authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq against cooperating with the United States and the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic.

Speaking during a televised interview on Friday, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi cautioned the officials that any cooperation with Washington or Tel Aviv would bear severe consequences.

“If you cooperate with the United States and the Zionist regime, we will crush you; you will be trampled under our feet and will never enjoy security again,” he said.

The spokesman also warned against allowing terrorist groups to use the region’s territory as a corridor.

“If the leaders of Iraq’s northern region open a corridor for these [terrorist] groups, we will strike all the infrastructure and facilities of this region; we will show no mercy to our enemies.”

‘US military grappling with serious hardware depletion’

The official also noted that the United States was facing a severe shortage of weaponry, despite deploying the full scale of its military might to the West Asia region to try to target the Islamic Republic.

“They have tested all their weapons. They have even brought out weapons that had been stored away for a third world war, yet they are still facing shortages.”

He added that, given the current weakened state of the American military, Washington could face difficulties if it became involved in another conflict.

“If the United States were to enter another conflict with other countries tomorrow, it would face serious difficulties. That is because they have brought all their capabilities into the battlefield so that they would not be disgraced. Yet fortunately they have already been disgraced, and they will suffer even greater disgrace.”

’14 US outposts hit during counterstrikes’

According to Shekarchi, Iranian counterattacks have targeted more than a dozen American military installations across the region.

“So far, 14 American military bases have been struck by Iran. [This is while,] they spent billions of dollars to establish dominance over the West Asia region and implemented advanced technologies and capabilities in those bases.”

As a case in point, the spokesman cited an incident that had occurred earlier in the day at the US base in Bahrain, saying details of the reprisal that targeted the facility would shortly be reported across the media.

‘Targeted sites lie in ruins; may take years to recover’

The sheer intensity of the Iranian retaliation had prompted the US to constantly need to evacuate dead and wounded Americans from the targeted outposts, the spokesman said, adding American facilities in the Persian Gulf kingdom had suffered a specially high number of casualties.

The damage inflicted on US bases would take years to repair, he underscored.

“The current condition of these bases is such that many of them cannot be rebuilt for at least the next five years. Many of them have been turned into ruins. All of the investments the United States made over more than 50 years have been destroyed.”

‘US facing two options: Defeat, surrender’

He argued that the situation leaves Washington with limited options in the conflict.

“For this reason, the United States has absolutely no option, but defeat and surrender in the war it has started,” the official said, adding, “What has happened to the United States over the past few days is unprecedented in the entire history of America.”

“The US military is a demoralized and exhausted force.”

Warning to regional countries

In light of the current state of affairs, Shekarchi said, regional countries should reconsider hosting US military bases.

“Countries in the region must understand that US bases bring them insecurity rather than security.”

This is while, despite posing “a serious threat to the United States and Israel,” the Islamic Republic poses no threat to the regional countries.

“So far, we have caused absolutely no damage to the nations of the region and have not targeted the sovereignty of any country.”

‘Reprisal to intensify every day’

He went on to caution that the Islamic Republic was poised to intensify its retaliation against American and Israeli targets.

“Our attacks against the United States and the Zionist regime will intensify every day,” the spokesman said, and underlined, “We will unveil more surprises for the United States and the Zionist regime.”

‘Iran faces no constraints in striking Zionist regime’

“We place no limitations on striking the Zionist regime,” the official stated.

“We will certainly employ our more advanced weapons and will bring good news to our nation,” Shekarchi said, noting that no degree of censorship has been capable of hiding the true extent of the human and material losses that have been suffered by the enemies.
Position on the Strait of Hormuz

The spokesman, meanwhile, said Iran had not blocked maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, except for the traffic featuring vessels affiliated to Washington or Tel Aviv.

The vessels, he stressed, “will certainly be struck.”

The remarks came less than a week after the US and the regime started their new bout of unprovoked aggression against the Iranian soil.

The atrocities have prompted decisive and unrelenting retaliatory strikes by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) against numerous strategic and sensitive American and Israeli targets.
Codenamed Operation True Promise 4, the strikes have hit targets lying deep inside the cities of Tel Aviv and the holy occupied city of al-Quds, besides hitting such American interests as the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and a US destroyer sailing in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of kilometers away from the Iranian shore.