Islam Times – Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned that intelligence reports suggest that Tehran’s enemies are planning to seize an Iranian island with support from an unnamed country in West Asia.”According to certain data, Iran’s enemies, with the support of one of the regional countries, are preparing an operation to occupy one of Iran’s islands,” Qalibaf wrote in an Arabic-language post on X on Wednesday.
The comments came as American media reports that approximately 2,000 soldiers from the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division had been ordered to deploy to the region, while the first of two Marine Expeditionary Units – on board a huge amphibious assault ship – could arrive in the region in the next few days.
President Donald Trump is weighing whether to dispatch possibly thousands of American soldiers into Iran as he looks for a way to achieve some of his key goals and end the war, according to two current US officials, two former US officials and another person familiar with the discussions.
Iranian military officials have issued a stark warning to the US, stressing Iran’s soil will turn into graveyards for American soldiers in case of an invasion.
A number of regional countries have allowed their respective soils to be used as launch pads for strikes against Iran since late last month, when the United States and the Israeli regime began their raids against Iran.
In response, Iranian Armed Forces have carried out more than 80 waves of retaliatory missile and drone attacks, codenamed Operation True Promise 4, targeting enemy positions.
“All enemy movements are under the supervision of our armed forces. If they take any step, all vital infrastructure of that regional country will be targeted relentlessly, without limitation,” Qalibaf stressed.