Iran’s military says American troops would become “good food for the sharks of the Persian Gulf” in the event of a ground offensive.

The parliament speaker highlighted the US's inability to protect its troops if they are deployed on Iranian soil.

Iran's military is closely monitoring US forces across the region, the senior spokesman for Iran’s Armed Forces says, asserting that the American military structure in West Asia has "collapsed in the shortest possible time."

Iranian security forces are fully ready to confront any American sabotage operations, a highly placed security source told Press TV on Tuesday.

An Iranian Army spokesman says 220 American soldiers and commanders have been killed or wounded and significant damage has been inflicted on American assets in the region in retaliatory attacks by the Iranian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours.

Reza Vedadi, a London-based researcher and author says the Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to drive US forces out of the West Asia region.

A recent report has revealed that the Israeli military is openly and covertly conducting extensive surveillance at a new US command center in the southern part of the Israeli-occupied territories.