The Iran conflict nearly exploded on Saturday after a top Iranian advisor warned of a “full-scale offensive operation” if U.S.airstrikes didn’t stop.
The serious words came from Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a high-ranking military adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
He made the threats after the U.S.finished its seventh day of airstrikes.
Rezaei, who once led Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said, “If U.S.
strikes continue for several more days, we will move into a phase of full-scale offensive operations.”
He also said, “Iran will no longer just respond in kind and no political border will be safe,” according to Iran’s news agency IRIB.
Both sides kept attacking each other, targeting bridges and other important infrastructure.
Iran hit water and desalination plants in Kuwait, CNN reported.
Several U.S.
soldiers were hurt in Iran’s revenge attacks, CBS News reported on Friday.
CNN’s Nic Robertson outlined the latest in the conflict Saturday morning, including Iranian strikes on Kuwait and attempts to target Saudi Arabia:
Kuwait is one of the countries that’s really been taking a hammering in these latest Israeli — latest Iranian strikes overnight and the water and desalination plant there hit significant enough damage and the government wanting to bring enough attention to it that their minister of electricity, water and renewable energies actually visited the site today.
Another serious and significant impact reported by Kuwaiti authorities saying that a site that significant damage was done to vital equipment at one of their main oil facilities, and that’s going to have an impact on its production capability several people there also injured.
Another significant change overnight was that Iran escalating in its strikes, trying to target two places in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia had not been hit up until now.
They were trying to hit, it appears the Red Sea port of Yanbu, that is and has been a red line for the Saudis in the past because it is their vital way of getting energy, oil out to the rest of the world via the Red Sea.
It’s on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, but also, it appears the Iranians are trying to strike an air base, Prince Sultan Air Base, where the U.S. Military has, until very recently at least, had military operations out of.
Now, the Iranians saying that water desalination plant there has been damaged, affecting a number of villages.
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