The Iranian military has designated hotels housing American soldiers throughout the region as legitimate targets. He talks about a war against the US and Israel in the Middle East.
Iran’s military has warned that hotels housing American troops across the Middle East region will be targeted in its war against the United States and Israel. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
- The Iranian military has identified hotels where American soldiers are staying as legitimate targets for attacks.
- The spokesman for the armed forces, Šekarčí, declared every such hotel an American object.
- Iranian Minister Araqchi accused US soldiers of using GCC residents as shields.
“When all the Americans (soldiers) stay in a hotel, from our point of view, this hotel becomes American,” Armed Forces spokesman Abolfazl Šekarči told state television on Thursday.
Threats to hotels
“Should we just sit idly by and let the Americans attack us? When we react, naturally we have to strike where they are,” he added.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi accused US troops on Thursday of using people from member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as “human shields”. “Since the beginning of this war, US soldiers have fled military bases in the GCC to take shelter in hotels and offices,” he said in a post on Platform X, urging hotels in the region to reject their bookings.
Iran is stepping up the pressure
Iran’s Fars news agency, citing unnamed sources, said Tehran had sent “strong warnings” to hotels in the region, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. She added that the Iranian military had identified US forces using similar sites in Syria, Lebanon and Djibouti.
Iran accuses its neighbors of allowing US forces to carry out attacks from their territory, a charge the Gulf states have repeatedly denied.
Tel Aviv and Washington launched attacks on Iran on February 28, which also killed its supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while Iran responded with drone and missile attacks on Israel and US facilities in the Gulf states.
