IRAN’S Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday warned that any attack on Iran’s oil and energy infrastructure would trigger retaliation against regional facilities linked to US companies.
In an interview with US broadcaster MS Now, Araghchi responded to Friday’s US strike on Kharg Island, Iran’s southern strategic oil terminal, and to President Donald Trump’s threat to target the island’s oil infrastructure if shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted.
“Our armed forces have already stated that they will retaliate if our oil and energy infrastructure is attacked. They will strike any energy facility in the region that belongs to or is partially owned by an American company,” Araghchi said. He also claimed that Friday’s US strikes originated from two locations in the United Arab Emirates: Ras AlKhaimah and an area near Dubai, cautioning that using densely populated regions to launch attacks on Iran is highly dangerous.
“All oil, economic, and energy infrastructure linked to US interests will be destroyed and reduced to a pile of ashes,” spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari told the official IRNA news agency.
Xinhua
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