Afraid of another US attack? Iran’s military has harsh words: The new war will last longer than the previous one

Iran's military leaders repeatedly said on the 1st that any new war with the United States would last longer than the previous U.S.-Iran conflict; it is not up to U.S. President Trump to decide when the new war will end.

According to Iranian state-run television, Iranian military spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said: "A possible war in the future may last longer than previous conflicts; the US president cannot order the time and conditions for the end of (the new war)."

The "previous conflict" Akraminiya refers to is the Middle East conflict in which the United States and Israel jointly attacked Iran at the end of February this year, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other high-level officials. This also affected U.S. allies in the Middle East and led to the intervention of regional armed groups supported by Iran.

According to Iranian state-run television, Iran's new Defense Minister Mehrdad Akhlaghi also warned on the 1st that if Iran is attacked by any attack, it will take a "proportional, decisive and far-reaching response... The party that poses the threat (meaning the enemy, that is, the United States) cannot independently determine the scope, timing or consequences of Iran's defensive counterattack."

Also on the 1st, Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ideological branch of the Iranian military, echoed Iran’s new supreme leader Mujtaba. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s written statement on October 31.

Mohebbi said: "The conflict with the United States has no geographical limits; (Iran) has defined a vast theater to fight the enemy."