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Iranian Lawmaker Threatens Missile Strikes on European Countries if U.S. Uses Bases There

On the anniversary of the 1979 U.S. embassy seizure, the Revolutionary Guards pledged a response "without geographical limits." A banner at Germany's embassy read: "Europe will pay the price for supporting Israel."

By Watchman Report staff ·

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"If America uses its bases in Europe, including in Italy and Germany, Iran's missiles will be fired towards Europe," Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee, told Euronews in an interview published Wednesday.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran pledging "an immediate, effective response without geographical limits," Euronews reported. Government supporters hung a banner outside the German embassy in Tehran quoting National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei: "Europe will pay the price for supporting Israel."

Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf welcomed the Republicans' defeat in the U.S. midterms, writing that Americans had "said no to war." Rezaei wrote that Washington must meet Iran's seven conditions in full before the Strait of Hormuz reopens, Euronews reported.

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