Iran threatens to 'deactivate' US bases in Persian Gulf as Trump warns 'clock is ticking' 🚨
IRGC spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari warned Sunday that U.S. military bases in the southern Persian Gulf would be “deactivated” as the U.S. maintained its blockade of Iranian ports and the IRGC enforced its effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Zolfaghari's remarks came around the same time as President Donald Trump urged Iran to make peace and abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions, saying the “clock is ticking.”
“In the past 24 hours, the IRGC Navy did not allow any vessel to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” Zolfaghari said in a post shared on X.
“In the near future, all U.S. military bases in the southern Persian Gulf will be deactivated,” he warned.
“We will build the New Order,” he said.
Zolfaghari’s comments also came after the UAE suffered a drone strike Sunday that sparked a fire at an electrical generator outside the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra region.
“The original model of a Shahed-136 drone attack looks like this,” Zolfaghari said in another X post on Sunday, that included what looked like a drone strike diagram.
“The fact that we have not yet treated you this way is out of consideration for our Muslim brothers and sisters in the UAE,” he added.
“But our patience has its limits,” he warned.