'Crushing blow' awaits UAE if it aids another attack on Iranian islands: Top military command

Iran's highest operational command unit has warned the United Arab Emirates against allowing its soil to be used again as a launch pad for aggression targeting the Iranian islands of Abu Musa and Greater Tunb in the Persian Gulf.

The warning was issued on Friday by the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Iran's highest operational command unit that coordinates operations between the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

In a statement, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari said, "As we have previously announced, and demonstrated in practice, we will strike the origin of any aggression against our territory and national sovereignty."

"We warn the United Arab Emirates that if any further aggression originates from its territory against the Iranian islands of Abu Musa and Greater Tunb in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s powerful Armed Forces will subject Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE to heavy and crushing strikes,” he added.

The official was referring to an industrial port city, which serves as the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE.

The comments came amid Iran's ongoing retaliatory Operation True Promise 4 against the latest bout of unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic.

The reprisal has struck key American military facilities across the region, including those lying in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan.

Tehran has underlined its right to reprisal in line with the international law, while urging states across the region to prevent their respective territories from being used as launch pads for attacks on the Iranian soil.

Also on Friday, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that the Islamic Republic would show "ZERO restraint" if its infrastructure was attacked.

"We have intelligence on Israeli plans to strike infrastructure. Once again: ZERO restraint if our infrastructure is attacked," he wrote.

"We are men and women of principles. Iranians do not sneak attack adversaries while engaged in dialogue. Only when attacked do we powerfully respond," the top diplomat added, referring to the US's current attacks and its joining an Israeli war on Iran last June, both of which came amid diplomatic engagement between Tehran and Washington.

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