The US cannot achieve its goals of blockading Iran's economy and shutting its trade routes because Tehran has made preparations and communicates closely with neighbours, a Revolutionary Guards spokesperson was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Hossein Mohebbi was reacting to the US military's Task Force Iron Gate, launched to help crack down on Tehran's movement of advanced weapons and other sanctioned material over its land borders and through the Caspian Sea.
"The Iron Gate plan is merely a wordplay, the Americans cannot achieve their objectives of imposing severe economic pressure to cause economic collapse in Iran through this approach," Mohebbi told the semi-official Fars news agency.
Reporting by Reuters
IRGC dismisses new US plan to tighten economic pressure on Iran as 'wordplay'
A Revolutionary Guards spokesperson said the United States cannot succeed in blockading Iran's economy and closing its trade routes, as Tehran has prepared for such a move and keeps close contact with its neighbours. He dismissed the US 'Iron Gate' plan as mere 'wordplay'.
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Original source: Middle East Eye
