
Iranian military spokesman Mohammad Akraminia warns that a future conflict with the United States would be prolonged and not limited to West Asia, marking Iran's shift to an offensive military doctrine.
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Tensions between Iran and the United States persist with bellicose statements from Iranian military leaders.
Iranian army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said that "a possible future conflict could prove to be significantly longer than past ones." Al Jazeera writes it.
"The American president - added the soldier, according to AFP - would not be able to dictate the times or conditions of its conclusion".
For Akraminia, any new attack by the United States "will receive an immediate and overwhelming response, even broader than those in the past. Should a new war break out, the geography of the conflict will not be limited to the West Asian region," he said, as reported by Iranian state media. He also underlined that Iranian doctrine has begun, "for some time now, to move from a purely defensive posture to an offensive approach."

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