US EditionIran’s top diplomat issues most direct threat yet to US as crackdown over protests squeezes nation
Iran warns of full retaliation using all available weapons if attacked amid a crackdown causing over 4,500 deaths and 26,300 arrests, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned The Wall Street Journal that Iran has `no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack`.
- Mass demonstrations that began on Dec. 28 over rial collapse expanded into unrest, with the Human Rights Activists News Agency reporting at least 4,519 killed and over 26,300 arrested amid internet restrictions since Jan. 8.
- U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three destroyers moved through the Strait of Malacca earlier this week, now heading west, only days from entering the Middle East, while Iran's short- and medium-range missiles could target American bases, including a June 23 launch of 14 ballistic missiles toward Al Udeid airbase.
- International backlash has already cost Araghchi a Davos invitation as the World Economic Forum rescinded it amid outrage over the crackdown, raising fears detainees in Iran could face execution.
- Araghchi warned `An all-out confrontation will certainly be ferocious and drag on far, far longer than the fantasy timelines that Israel and its proxies are trying to peddle to the White House`, and reports of a strike near Irbil that killed one fighter have increased regional tensions.
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