IRGC warns US: Any threat will be met with proportional, deterring response

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to the United States, emphasizing that any threat to Iran would be met with a proportional and deterring response.

In a statement on Monday, the IRGC addressed recent claims by US President Donald Trump, who had alleged that the Corps intended to target regional desalination plants and disrupt services to local populations.

"First, it is the aggressive and inhumane American army that started this war by killing children, sacrificing 180 elementary school children, and has so far targeted five water infrastructure sites, including the Qeshm Island desalination plant," the statement read.

It was referring respectively to a massacre targeting a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab on February 28, when the US and the Israeli regime began their latest bout of unprovoked aggression against Iran, and a subsequent attack on a southern Iranian island during the aggression.

"The IRGC has not carried out such actions," it added.

The statement also mentioned some other atrocities that have been carried out by the allies, which have been met with self-restraint on the part of the IRGC.

"You struck our hospitals. We did not retaliate. You struck our relief centers. We did not retaliate. You struck our schools. We did not retaliate."

It went on to address Trump's threat of targeting Iran's power generation facilities, pledging certain retaliation.
"But if you strike the electricity [supply chain], we will strike [your] electricity [supply chain]."

The Corps again referenced Trump's accusations against it of intending to challenge provision of essential services to regional nations, saying the Islamic Republic's reprisal would be targeting power plants serving US bases as well as economic, industrial, and energy sites linked to American interests.

The statement concluded with a firm declaration of capability and resolve, noting, "We are determined to respond to every threat on the same level that would create deterrence in the balance, and we will carry this out."

"The United States does not know our capabilities; they will witness them on the battlefield."

So far, the IRGC has struck numerous highly sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region as part of its ongoing retaliatory Operation True Promise 4.

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