Iran Guard chief warns US against imposing new sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran — The chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Sunday the U.S. should move its military bases farther from Iran’s borders if it imposes new sanctions against Tehran, the official IRNA news reported.
The Sunday report quotes Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari as saying: “If new sanctions go into effect, the country should move its regional bases to a 2000-kilometre (1,240-mile) radius” out of the range of Iranian missiles.
Currently, U.S. military bases are located in countries neighbouring Iran, including Bahrain, Iraq, Oman and Afghanistan, less than 500 kilometres (310 miles) from Iran’s borders.
Jafari rejected the idea of negotiating with the U.S. over regional issues and said if the United States designates the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group, the Guard — which has suffered significant casualties fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq — will also consider the U.S. army a terrorist group.