The Iranian Revolutionary Guard threatens to use new weapons in the event of an American attack

Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman Hussein Mohebi said on Monday that Iran will use new weapons and target sites that have not been previously attacked if the United States launches a new attack on it.

The Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, quoted Mohebi as saying: “If a new aggression occurs, we will certainly change the armament and geography of the war,” adding that Tehran is ready for a long-term conflict, according to what was reported by the “Reuters” news agency.

The Unified Combat Command of the Iranian Armed Forces said on Sunday that Tehran had received information that the United States was preparing to resume combat operations.

In addition, the Revolutionary Guard announced today the interception and destruction of a US Army MQ-1 drone “with fire from the modern aerospace defense system and under the control of the Unified Air Defense Network” in the airspace of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Public Relations Department of the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by Mehr Agency today: “The important point is that this advanced drone, known as the ‘Butcher of Kandahar’, after 20,000 hours of flight over Afghanistan, was removed years ago from the combat organization of the US Navy and Air Forces, and was replaced by the MQ9 drone,” noting that “due to the destruction of a large part of the American MQ9 planes, America was once again forced to use this drone (MQ1).”

After a month of relative calm in the war that broke out with the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, military escalation recently returned with the exchange of strikes, at a time when the diplomatic track is still faltering.

Yesterday, Washington and Tehran exchanged strongly worded threats that raised the specter of a return to escalation of the ongoing war between them, which has entered its seventh month.

US President Donald Trump abruptly cut short his weekend at Camp David and returned to Washington to announce that “something big may happen very soon regarding Iran.”

Trump said he was "making an important decision." He explained that the current options before him are: “wiping out Iran, leaving it to rot economically, or reaching a deal and agreement with it.”

Iran, for its part, responded by announcing that it had information that the United States was preparing to launch a major attack on it, warning against taking this dangerous step.

In new efforts to stop the escalation and return to mediation, Pakistan and Turkey announced that they were conducting diplomatic contacts to remedy the situation in the region.