The commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters — the joint IRGC-Artesh emergency command — claimed Tuesday that the US military ordered Iranian oil tankers to evacuate ahead of an intended attack, according to Abu Ali Express. He warned that any damage to Iran's oil tankers will result in strikes on American bases in the region by Iran's armed forces.
The commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters — the joint emergency command coordinating between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the regular Iranian military (Artesh) — claimed Tuesday that the US military ordered Iranian oil tankers to evacuate from the area ahead of a planned attack. In the statement, he warned that any damage to Iranian oil tankers would be met with strikes on American bases in the region by the Iranian armed forces.
The threat is the latest in a series of escalations in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has imposed a blockade and issued warnings against US forces. The Khatam al-Anbiya HQ has previously threatened to block all oil exports through the strait and target US assets in response to American strikes on Iranian infrastructure, as reported by The Zioneer. The reported US evacuation order and the commander's threat could not be independently verified; no American official has confirmed the order or any planned attack.
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