{"id":5665,"date":"2026-03-26T03:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/tehran-issues-warning-to-regional-neighbour-if-iranian-island-occupied\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:36:02","slug":"tehran-issues-warning-to-regional-neighbour-if-iranian-island-occupied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/tehran-issues-warning-to-regional-neighbour-if-iranian-island-occupied\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran issues warning to regional neighbour if Iranian island occupied"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>A senior official in Tehran has warned that intelligence reports suggest that \u201cIran\u2019s enemies\u201d \u2060are planning to occupy an Iranian island with support \u200cfrom an unnamed country in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u2060Iran\u2019s \u2060parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said on Wednesday that any such attempt would be met with targeted attacks on the \u201cvital infrastructure\u201d of the regional country \u2013 which he did not name \u2013 that assists in the operation.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/3\/25\/un-adopts-slavery-resolution-despite-resistance\">UN adopts slavery resolution despite resistance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/3\/25\/video-shows-israeli-strike-hitting-displacement-camp-in-gaza\">Video shows Israeli strike hitting displacement camp in Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/3\/25\/iran-releases-video-claiming-to-show-downing-of-us-jet\">Iran releases video claiming to show downing of US jet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/3\/25\/egypt-says-it-is-ready-to-host-iran-de-escalation-talks\">Egypt says it is ready to host Iran de-escalation talks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cIranian forces are monitoring \u2060enemy movements, and \u2060if they take any step, we will \u2060attack vital \u2060infrastructure in \u2060that regional country in continuous and relentless attacks,\u201d \u200cGhalibaf said in two separate posts on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Ghalibaf\u2019s warning comes as United States President Donald Trump continued to claim that the US was in negotiations with Iran to end the war \u2013 which Tehran has denied \u2013 while the White House also conveyed new threats against the Iranian leadership.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that Iran must accept defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment, if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily and will continue to be, President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before,\u201d Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell,\u201d Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s claims of peace talks while also threatening ever more punishing war against Iran come as the Pentagon sends thousands of airborne troops to the Gulf region, adding to two contingents of US Marines already on their way.<\/p>\n<p>US media reports that approximately 2,000 soldiers from the US Army\u2019s 82nd Airborne Division had been ordered to deploy to the region, while the first of two Marine Expeditionary Units \u2013 on board a huge \u2060amphibious assault ship \u2013 could arrive in the region in the next few days, according to reports.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018US eye on Kharg Island\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall, reporting from Tehran, said people in Iran are well aware of the continuing buildup of US ground troops and warships in the region, and \u201cthey know what it is going to lead to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo right now, they are much more certain of a continuation of this war than an end to it, and they say they are preparing for it,\u201d Vall said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also are aware of the US eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/3\/11\/the-orphan-pearl-inside-kharg-the-beating-heart-of-irans-oil-empire\">Kharg Island<\/a>,\u201d he said, adding that some believe that the parliamentary speaker\u2019s earlier threat to a regional country \u2013 should it help in an island invasion \u2013 was aimed at the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to some people explaining what he said, he\u2019s referring here to the United Arab Emirates, that it might be cooperating with the US and encouraging it to take Kharg Island,\u201d Vall said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIranians over the last few days have been saying that they know that if this happens, they are sure that it will be very destructive to that country, the United Arab Emirates, and also the US troops,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKharg is a small, exposed island that is very close to the Iranian mainland. They are threatening that if US troops land on it, that will be the thing that [Iranians] are waiting for \u2013 and that it will be very detrimental to the safety of US troops,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency cited an unnamed military source as saying on Wednesday that Iran could open a new front at the mouth of the Red Sea if military action takes place on \u201cIranian islands or anywhere else in our lands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The source told Tasnim that Iran has the capability to pose a \u201ccredible threat\u201d in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, \u2060which lies between Yemen and Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>Tasnim later quoted an \u201cinformed source\u201d claiming that Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran, are prepared to play a role \u201cif there is a need to control the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to further punish the enemy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has in recent days repeatedly claimed progress in talks with Iran, and while Tehran has rejected that any negotiations with the US are taking place, there are signs of tentative diplomatic efforts, with mediators in the region saying work is ongoing behind the scenes to relay messages between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>The US has reportedly proposed a 15-point plan to end the fighting, while an Iranian official was quoted by local media as saying that Tehran has put forward its own five conditions for hostilities to end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior official in Tehran has warned that intelligence reports suggest that \u201cIran\u2019s enemies\u201d \u2060are planning to occupy an Iranian island with support \u200cfrom an unnamed country in the region. \u2060Iran\u2019s \u2060parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said on Wednesday that any such attempt would be met with targeted attacks on the \u201cvital infrastructure\u201d of the &#8230; <a title=\"Tehran issues warning to regional neighbour if Iranian island occupied\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/tehran-issues-warning-to-regional-neighbour-if-iranian-island-occupied\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tehran issues warning to regional neighbour if Iranian island occupied\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}