Iran’s new security chief says neighbours who join US economic war will be considered ‘enemies’

Published August 23, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

Hardliner Mohsen Rezaei also threatens American economic interests in first interview since appointment to supreme national security council

The new leader of Iran’s top security body has warned its neighbours against joining new US efforts to squeeze Tehran’s economy, and threatened US commercial interests in the region, as Donald Trump doubled down on his fanciful view that the strait of Hormuz was a new US territory.

Details

Mohsen Rezaei, the hardline new leader of Iran’s supreme national security council, told state television that Iran would target oil-shipping routes out the Gulf – alternatives to the strait of Hormuz – if its neighbours joined what he called the “economic war” waged by the US. Those neighbours would be “considered an enemy” and “we will target their interests”, he said.

Source

Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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