Mohebbi also warned that Iran’s targets would not necessarily be the same as those targeted during the earlier phase of the conflict.
IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi said Iran was prepared for a prolonged confrontation and that there would be “significant changes” in its defensive and counteroffensive operations if hostilities intensified. We have new targets that have not yet been struck,” he said. In an interview with Al-Alam News Network, Mohebbi said the IRGC had prepared for a “long-term war” and would respond if the conflict entered another phase of heightened hostilities. “In our view, war is war; it has different stages, but war is war and the war is not over, the war continues, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has prepared itself for a long-term war, and it was ready before, and now it is even more prepared for a long-term war,” he said. “Despite America having the largest navy in the world and despite defining the reason for its presence in the region and the world as ensuring the security of energy flows and freedom of navigation, it became clear in this war that America, first of all, did not have the ability to reopen the Strait and could not,” he said.
“Our targets are also no longer necessarily the same [as the] previous targets.