Iran: Any Country that Attacks Will be ‘Main Battlefield’

The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned that any country that attacks Tehran will become the “main battlefield.” The comments come as the United States and Saudi Arabia investigate last week’s attack against two Saudi oil facilities that temporarily cut the kingdom’s output by almost half and reduced global supply by some five percent. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday slammed US sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank as an attempt to deny Iranian citizens food and medicine. The Trump Administration imposed the new penalties in the wake of the attack on the Saudi oil assets and is reportedly dispatching additional US soldiers to Riyadh. In Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, head of Tehran-backed Hizbullah, threatened this weekend that Saudi Arabia would be destroyed in any war with Iran.