Press TV November 9, 2026
Iran warns that further US-Israeli attacks could provoke retaliation against a widening range of targets, threatening regional infrastructure, global energy supplies, and economic stability. We examine Iran’s expanded target bank.
The current talking points emerging from both the military and civilian leadership in Tehran carry a tone markedly different from anything we have heard before. Gone are the careful hedges, diplomatic qualifiers, and attempts to preserve ambiguity as a tool of de-escalation.
In their place is something colder and more deliberate: a growing conviction across Iran’s command structure that another round of aggression between Iran and the US-Israeli axis is not merely possible but increasingly probable – and that Iran’s response, should it occur, will bear little resemblance to anything we have witnessed before.
Tehran has demonstrated its ability to withstand both military and economic pressure. That is the single most important fact that policymakers in Washington and Tel Aviv seem incapable of grasping. Months of maritime siege, economic warfare, threats of renewed strikes against Iranian nuclear and industrial infrastructure, assassination campaigns, and sabotage operations have failed to produce the outcome their architects promised.
Iran has not fractured from within. Its military command has not splintered, nor has its strategic doctrine collapsed under the weight of mounting pressure. Instead, that pressure has hardened Iran’s resolve and accelerated its preparations.
In what may prove to be the most consequential development of this period, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, held an in-person meeting with the heads of the country’s military branches last week.
Those in attendance included Chief of the General Staff Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, Army Commander-in-Chief Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami, and IRGC Commander-in-Chief Maj. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi – the top brass of the Iranian armed forces.
This was no routine briefing. During the meeting, Ayatollah Khamenei delivered an explicit message: Iran’s armed forces must maintain the highest possible state of readiness to counter enemy plots. Any renewed aggression, he declared, must be met with an “immediate, decisive, and wide-scale response without any geographical restrictions.”
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