TEHRAN – “If the US launches another war against Iran, every military base involved in the aggression—from West Asia to Europe—will be a legitimate target for Iran’s lethal strikes. NO SAFE DISTANCE. NO SAFE HAVEN. NO IMMUNITY.”
With these three capitalized lines posted on X on Thursday, November 12, Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), condensed weeks of Iranian signaling into a single doctrine. The message was not presented as rhetoric but as operational warning: any base from which American aircraft take off to bomb Iran will be treated as a belligerent, regardless of whether it sits in the Persian Gulf or in the heart of Europe.
In a separate interview with Beirut-based Al Mayadeen broadcast the same day, Rezaei clarified that Iran would not restrict retaliation to nearby American installations. European bases used for refuelling, transit, intelligence or launch would qualify. The significance, lies precisely in the geographic scope: Tehran is signalling that a renewed campaign would expose American power far beyond the immediate battlefield.
The warning did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the public, outward-facing formulation of an order issued 14 days earlier at the highest level of the Islamic Republic.
On October 31, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, met Iran’s three…
