By VIRA Broadcasting Staff
Iran warned the United States over the weekend against any “adventurous action,” saying it would respond decisively to further American or Israeli strikes as the two countries’ months-long war showed no signs of winding down.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi delivered the warning in a series of phone calls on Saturday with senior officials from Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, according to posts on his official Telegram account. Speaking separately with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Araqchi said Iran would respond decisively to any “aggression” and warned of the risks of what he called “destabilising actions” by Washington. In a later call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Araqchi said any US or Israeli attack — or the participation of other regional states in such an attack — would be met with a “proportionate response.”
Threats on both sides
The exchange came a day after President Donald Trump repeated his threat to hit Iran “very hard,” and amid reports that the United States and Israel are preparing a new bombing campaign targeting Iranian energy infrastructure, with strikes potentially coming before financial markets reopen Monday. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, citing a senior security official, reported that Tehran’s retaliation plan would include Israeli infrastructure as well as US energy assets elsewhere in the region.
Iran and the United States have been in an active state of war since February, after an earlier ceasefire collapsed and strikes resumed between the two countries. The conflict has drawn in the wider Gulf region: Kuwait’s military said Saturday it had detected and destroyed hostile drones over its territory, which it said were launched by Iran and struck a government facility in the north of the country as well as civilian property on Bubiyan Island. No casualties were reported in the latest incident, though Kuwait has recorded at least one death from earlier strikes this week.
Escalation warnings spread across the region
Iran’s military separately accused Washington of “escalating tensions” in the region on Saturday, with Ali Abdollahi, head of Iran’s military central command, warning that any country acting as a “defensive shield” for the United States would be “engulfed by the flames of war.”
The rising tension has prompted US embassies across the Middle East — including in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — to issue security alerts urging American citizens to “consider departing” the region and to prepare for flight cancellations and airspace closures amid what officials called the potential for “unforeseen escalation.”
Neither the White House nor Iran’s foreign ministry has indicated any near-term path back to a ceasefire. For now, both sides have signaled they are prepared to escalate further rather than step back.
This story is developing and will be updated as more information becomes available.