US blockade will bring enemy 'ice age’: Aide to Iran’s Leader
A top advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution has warned that a US naval blockade will not push the Islamic Republic "back to the Stone Age" but will instead plunge the "system of domination into an ice age".
Writing on X on Thursday, Mohammad Mokhber, an advisor to Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, rejected the impact of the US naval blockade on Iranian ports.
"When 20% of the world's oil and more than 18 trillion cubic meters of gas are under our control, a naval blockade will not drag Iran back to the Stone Age, but will undoubtedly plunge the system of domination into an ice age," he said.
Marking Persian Gulf Day, observed annually on April 30, Mokhber added that "with a transit capacity worth tens of billions of dollars, the lordship of the Persian Gulf belongs to the Iranians, and the enemy must return to the Gulf of Pigs."
The term "Gulf of Pigs" refers to the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, the site of a failed 1961 US-backed invasion aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro.
The warning follows threats from US President Donald Trump, who has said he would bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages" in a demand to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The phrase implies the destruction of infrastructure such as power grids, bridges, ports, and fuel networks to cripple a modern state.
Separately, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf marked Persian Gulf Day in a message, commemorating the occasion with a historical reference to the expulsion of European colonizers.
"In the year 1622 AD, after 115 years of occupation, we expelled the European colonizers from the Persian Gulf, and we celebrate National Persian Gulf Day in honor of this victory," Qalibaf wrote on his user account on X.
"Today, by managing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran will provide itself and its neighbors with the valuable blessing of a future without the presence and interference of America," he added.
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