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An attack will be all-out war, Iran warns US, Saudi
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Any US or Saudi military strike against Iran would bring 鈥渁ll-out war,鈥 Tehran said yesterday, keeping up a drumbeat of warnings to its adversaries after they accused the Islamic Republic of a strike on Saudi oil facilities.
鈥淚 am making a very serious statement that we don鈥檛 want war; we don鈥檛 want to engage in a military confrontation ... But we won鈥檛 blink to defend our territory,鈥 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif told CNN in an interview.
Asked what the consequence of an American or a Saudi military strike on Iran would be, Zarif said 鈥渁n all-out war.鈥
The United States has been discussing with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies possible responses to an attack on Saudi oil facilities on Saturday which they blame on Iran, and which US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described as an act of war on the kingdom but Iran denied it.
Zarif had earlier warned on Twitter that what he described as the B team 鈥 including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman 颅鈥 was deceiving US President Donald Trump into a war against Iran.
The attack was claimed by Yemen鈥檚 Houthi group.
Iran鈥檚 Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that Washington and Riyadh had accused Iran 鈥渂ecause they don鈥檛 believe the oppressed Yemeni nation has reached such a capability,鈥 the state news agency IRNA reported.
The semi-official news agency ISNA quoted Iran鈥檚 Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying Iran鈥檚 adversaries would regret any aggression against it.
Trump struck a cautious note on Wednesday. He said there were many options short of war with Iran, which denies involvement in the September 14 strikes that initially halved Saudi oil output. He ordered more sanctions on Tehran.
Zarif also said in a tweet yesterday that Pompeo was trying to delay issuing visas for the Iranian delegation to the upcoming United Nations General Assembly.
Trump said he is not looking to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a UN event in New York this month.
Separately, Iran鈥檚 Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh accused the US of using oil as a 鈥渨eapon鈥 and said economic conditions were harder under the current US sanctions than during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq.
鈥淣ow the situation has become more difficult economically than during the war. At the time of the war, we would sell our oil and get our money and buy whatever we wanted, but now the conditions are very complicated,鈥 Zanganeh said, referring to banking sanctions which make it hard for Tehran to receive its oil income.
Referring to the effect of attacks on Saudi oil installations, Zanganeh said: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 an important issue and soon the balance will be restored in the market.鈥
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