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IRGC says it’s preparing for ‘new Persian Gulf order,’ Hormuz will ‘never return to its former state’
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Illustrative: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC-N) fast attack craft Shahid Raeisi (P313-8) during joint naval military drills between Iran, Russia, and China in the Gulf of Oman, March 15, 2023. (Iranian Army office / AFP)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy is preparing for a “new Persian Gulf order,” it says, after US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants if Tehran did not open the Strait of Hormuz
“The Strait of Hormuz will never return to its former state, especially for the US and Israel,” the IRGC Naval Command writes on X.
“The IRGC Navy is completing operational preparations for the Iranian authorities’ #declaration_plan for the new Persian Gulf order,” it adds.
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