Iran warned Monday it would use “new weapons with new capabilities” if the U.S.launched a fresh assault after President Donald Trump ramped up the rhetoric against Tehran over the weekend.
“If a new aggression takes place, we will definitely change the weapons and geography of the war,” Hossein Mohebbi, a spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Monday, according to semiofficial Fars news agency.Mohebbi did not provide details on what the new weapons were or which new locations could be hit.Earlier, Trump said he would “probably” be open to meeting with Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian during the United Nations General Assembly this week, Fox News’s chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reported Sunday.The possibility of a meeting offered some small glimmer of hope for a resolution to the nearly seven-month war with Iran, which has resulted in Iran blocking the key Strait of Hormuz, and its Yemeni allies bombing a crucial east-west oil pipeline and threatening another crucial waterway.
Resultant economic shockwaves have hit the U.S.and world economy, driving up oil and diesel prices and fueling inflation.President Masoud Pezeshkian stands beneath a giant portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a military parade in Tehran on Friday.Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesTrump also said he was still deciding how to proceed with the war, describing his options as “wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal.”“My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up,” he said.
“They better behave,” Trump warned.The president has previously said he did not believe the Iran war would end until after November’s midterm elections.
He has also said oil prices would not come down until then.Oil prices slid to their lowest point in more than a week on Monday as hopes for renewed talks between the U.S.and Iran grew, while signs of a recovery in Saudi crude ex...