Iran threatens retaliation on military bases if US attacks again

Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's powerful Supreme National Security Council, has warned that military bases involved in any new US attacks on Iran will be targets for retaliation.
'If the US launches another war against Iran, every military base involved in the aggression - from West Asia to Europe - will be a legitimate target for Iran's lethal strikes,' Rezaei wrote on X on Wednesday.
'No safe distance. No safe haven. No immunity.'
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the military conflict with Iran was 'effectively over,' with a naval blockade to remain in place but no new attacks planned. Media reports had suggested he could order a resumption of large-scale combat operations after the US congressional elections.
Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also Iran's chief negotiator, said Iran is determined to move beyond the state of 'no war, no peace,' in an interview with broadcaster Al Jazeera.
Tehran was awaiting a response to the list of demands it had sent to the US government via Qatar, acting as mediator.
'The ball is now in the American court,' he said.
Meanwhile, the US was working 'around the clock' to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping, US Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for the Middle East, wrote on X.
Forces were 'strictly enforcing the ironclad naval blockade against Iran,' and working to prevent the transport of advanced weapons and other materials across Iran's land borders and the Caspian Sea.
The US has been blocking vessels from reaching and leaving Iranian ports for months in a bid to pressure Tehran to lift its own blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Gulf with the Gulf of Oman.
Iranian attacks on and threats to shipping through the key artery for the global oil and gas trade have sent energy prices surging worldwide.