The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the US and its allies continued to commit war crimes in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how this could have happened.
Iran backs Hamas against Israel and accuses the United States of supporting what it calls Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip, where weeks of bombing have killed more than 20,000 people, including thousands of children, and forced most of the population from their homes. houses.
“Expect the Mediterranean to close (the Strait of) Gibraltar and other sea routes soon,” Tasnim said, citing Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the Guard’s coordinating commander.
Yemen’s Houthi group, Iran’s ally, last month attacked merchant ships sailing through the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel’s attack on Gaza, prompting some shipping companies to change course.
The White House said Friday that Iran was “heavily involved” in planning operations against merchant ships in the Red Sea.
Iran does not have direct access to the Mediterranean Sea and it is not clear how the guard could try to close it off, although Naqdi spoke of the “birth of”. new resistance forces and the closure of other sea routes.”
“Yesterday the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz became a nightmare for them, and today they are stuck […] in the Red Sea,” Naqdi said.
The only Iranian-backed groups in the Mediterranean are the Lebanese Hezbollah and allied militias in distant Gibraltar, Syria.
(With information from Reuters)
Source: La Neta Neta
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