Hours after US President Donald Trump’s new warning to Tehran, Iranian vice president Esmail Saghab Esfahani has threatened fourfold destruction in the Gulf countries.
In a post on X, Esfahani said Iran
will inflict four times the damage on infrastructure of countries supporting the US.
“If our infrastructure, including oil wells, is damaged as a result of the blockade, we guarantee that four times the damage will be inflicted on the same infrastructure in countries that support the aggressor. Our math is different: 1 oil well = 4 oil wells,” he wrote on X.
Earlier on Sunday,Trump gave a fresh warning to Tehran, threatening to blow up its oil pipelines if it does not agree to a ceasefire deal to end the war.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said that if Iran is unable to continue exporting oil, the pipelines will eventually fail, both mechanically and due to the earth’s natural forces.
While the direct talks have been stalled, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Saint Petersburg early on Monday and is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The expected meeting comes off the back of whirlwind visits to Islamabad, Muscat and Islamabad again in recent days.
On the other hand, Israel and Hezbollah have accused each other of breaching the truce. The Israeli army has said one of its troops was killed “during combat” in south Lebanon, where a ceasefire has been in place since mid-April.
However, Hezbollah rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s accusation that it was jeopardising a ceasefire, saying that its attacks on Israeli targets in southern Lebanon and northern Israel were “a legitimate response to the enemy’s persistent violations of the ceasefire since the first day of the announcement of the temporary truce”.
