US military presence in the Gulf now an opportunity, says Iranian elite force
Head of aerospace at Iran’s Guards says if the Americans make a move, ‘we will hit them in the head’
Geneva — The US military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA). The US military sent forces, including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers, to the Middle East to counter what US officials have said are “clear indications” of threats from Iran to its forces there. The USS Abraham Lincoln is replacing another carrier rotated out of the Gulf in April. “An aircraft carrier that has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and 6,000 forces gathered within it was a serious threat for us in the past but now … the threats have switched to opportunities,” Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards’s aerospace division said. He added: “If [the Americans] make a move, we will hit them in the head.” The commander of the Guards, Maj-Gen Hossein Salami, said in a parliament session on Sunday that the US has started a psychological war in the region...
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