Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it is ready for a “counteroffensive” and warned it will “change the geography of the war” if the United States attacks the country again, in the words of the force’s spokesperson, Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, in an interview with the semi-official Tasnim news agency published on Monday, September 21, 2026, and reproduced by ABC News.

“If a new aggression takes place, there will definitely be significant changes in our defense and our counteroffensive,” Mohebbi said, adding that Iran will bring “new weapons with new capabilities” into the battlefield and that the world will be surprised. On the same day, Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the country has reached a stage where its missiles can hit any target Tehran chooses and that it is answering a “hybrid conflict” of economic, military and diplomatic pressure, according to Middle East Eye, citing the state broadcaster Press TV. The statements answer the threats Donald Trump made in a Fox News interview on Sunday, September 20, when he said the options under consideration were “wiping [Iran] out, letting them rot economically or making a deal”, according to The Guardian. The two countries remain deadlocked over the Strait of Hormuz, closed by Iran, with commercial traffic disrupted and a US counter-blockade on Iranian ports, according to The Guardian.