"Will you make the sacred Strait of Hormuz unsafe? We will turn the entire region into hell for you from across Iran,” IRGC Aerospace Force chief, Brig.-Gen. Majid Mousavi said.
“Those strikes that will happen tonight will be strong and clear, and if they have to happen tomorrow night they will be strong and clear,” Hegseth asserted, adding that US CENTCOM will be “busy."
Iran "will stand firm against any pressure or threat," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said.
The legislation would make it illegal to express support for designated proxies or to take money from them, providing for jail terms of up to 14 years.
The big question in the Gulf is whether Iran will continue to carry out missile and drone attacks on Gulf countries. This includes threats to all the countries Iran has hit.
Turkey and Israel are trading heated rhetoric over Jerusalem and regional influence, raising concerns that verbal clashes could escalate into broader tensions in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Later on Wednesday, Trump told reporters at the White House that the US will "hit them [Iran] hard again today."
Erdogan also said there were initiatives, led by Israel, to destabilize the Mediterranean region and warned that "nobody should chase adventures" or join Israel's "boat of mischief."
Karimi, who is currently living in exile in the United States, became a major voice of anti-regime protests in 2022. This is not the first time his assets have been seized by the regime.
"I feel that we are in a position to get a deal that is good for the US economically and that really does deal with the Iranian nuclear program, not just now... but for the long term," he said.
Iran expert Dr. Menahem Merhavy explains that Iran has created a “ring of fire” of terrorist proxies surrounding Israel that's “currently stuttering, but Iran won’t abandon Hezbollah.
