Iran foreign minister Araqchi warns US to leave region, pledges response to strikes
A direct, named threat from Iran's Foreign Minister raises the geopolitical risk premium a notch above anonymous state media statements. Language referencing battlefield defeats and historical consequences for outside powers suggests Tehran is not inclined to absorb the strikes quietly. Any Iranian counter-strike on US assets or regional shipping infrastructure would put Hormuz back at the centre of an acute supply shock, and traders will be watching the strait closely through the Asia open.
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- More on this news: US strikes southern Iran after Apache helicopter downed over Hormuz
- US hits Iran air defenses in warning shot as Trump says deal talks to continue
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Iranian Foreign Minister Araqchi warned the US to leave the region or face consequences, pledging a forceful response after American strikes hit Iranian air defense and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz.
Summary:
- Foreign Minister Araqchi said Iran's armed forces would not leave any attack or threat unanswered, and urged US forces to leave the region
- The statement followed US strikes on Iranian air defense systems and radar installations near Hormuz, carried out on Trump's orders in retaliation for the downing of a US Army Apache helicopter
- Araqchi referenced what he described as US defeats on the battlefield, framing the strikes as an act of desperation rather than strength
- Iran's IRGC-affiliated media had earlier separately pledged a decisive response to the US action
- A US official had characterised the strikes as a warning shot designed not to derail ongoing peace negotiations, a framing Tehran appears to have flatly rejected
Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi issued a direct public warning to the United States on Tuesday, pledging retaliation for overnight American strikes and telling US forces to leave the region if they wished to avoid further confrontation.
Writing on social media, Araqchi said Iran's armed forces would leave no attack or threat unanswered, and invoked the history of the Persian Gulf as a warning to what he called intruding outsiders. The language was unusually pointed for a cabinet-level official and went well beyond the standing threats issued by Iran's military-aligned media in the hours prior.
The statement came in response to US strikes that hit Iranian air defense systems and radar installations around the Strait of Hormuz. Those strikes were themselves retaliatory, ordered by President Trump following the downing of a US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter over the strait by what US officials described as an Iranian one-way attack drone. The two Apache crew members were rescued by a US Navy surface drone and are in stable condition.
Washington had framed its military action as a warning shot, with officials insisting the strikes were calibrated not to derail ongoing negotiations toward a peace settlement. Trump has said he believes a deal remains close. Tehran's response, both through state media and now through its Foreign Minister, suggests it does not accept that framing.
Araqchi's reference to US battlefield defeats adds a further dimension, signalling that Iran views its position as one of strength rather than concession. That posture sits uneasily with the diplomatic track Washington is trying to preserve, and leaves both sides in the unusual position of simultaneously threatening escalation and nominally pursuing talks.
The Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed. Before the conflict it carried roughly a fifth of the world's crude oil and LNG, and any Iranian counter-strike on US assets or regional infrastructure would place renewed and acute pressure on global energy supply.
This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.提供 MainLink：Investinglive RSS Breaking News Feed
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