Iranian Foreign Minister: Hormuz policy will not change even if new war breaks out

Iranian military: US Lucas drone shot down over Erbil province

(Johannesburg = Yonhap News) Correspondent Na Confirmation = Amid the possibility of another strike against Iran after the U.S. midterm elections, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran's policies regarding the Strait of Hormuz and other areas will not change even if a new war breaks out.

According to AP and AFP on the 25th (local time), Minister Aragchi met with diplomats in Tehran and said, "Recently, there has been talk of a new war, but I am already thinking about the post-war period," and added, "Whether a war breaks out or not, our policy remains the same."

“They have already fought two wars and seen the results,” he added. “Even if they want to try again, they know that the results will be the same as before.”

“We must accept that a new reality is taking hold,” he said. “The maritime routes through the Strait of Hormuz and the way the strait is managed will no longer be the same as in the past.”

Minister Aragchi's remarks on this day came amid speculation that the US Donald Trump administration could strike Iran again after the recent US midterm elections.

President Trump announced that he would not attack Iran before the midterm elections on the 3rd of next month, but in a midterm election campaign speech held in Fort Myers, Florida on the 23rd, he hinted at the possibility of a second strike, saying, "We may do another small 'Grand Fury' operation."

‘Great Fury’ is the name of the military operation in which the United States launched a war against Iran in late February and launched massive airstrikes along with Israel.

Meanwhile, Iran's Tasnim and Mehr news agencies reported that the Iranian military announced that it shot down an American Lucas drone over the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.

The Lucas drone is a low-cost, disposable attack drone known to have been created by the United States by reverse engineering Iran's suicide drone, Shahed.

Separately, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also announced on this day that it had preemptively attacked with a drone the night before the base of the anti-Iranian Kurdish separatist armed organization Komala in the Balisan region of Erbil Province, Iraq.

Mehr News Agency reported that this attack caused significant casualties to the Comala organization and caused significant damage to its organizational structure and operational capabilities, but Comala refuted that there was only material damage and no human casualties.