The commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps personally led a tough challenge to the presence of the United States and other foreign forces in the Persian Gulf region. Amid the escalating tensions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami has publicly questioned the presence of the US Navy in the Middle East, especially in the Persian Gulf region, and has strongly stated that he will strike at what he calls "enemies" around the world, according to Alrabiya on January 6. On the same day, Iran held a grand ceremony in the southern coastal city of Bandar Abbas to celebrate the installation of a new ship named "Abu Mahdi al-Muhadis" and 100 speedboats capable of launching missiles. "Today we are faced with an all-out battle with the enemy," Salami said at the ceremony, vowing that "whatever they are in, we will fight". The newly installed ** is named after the commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhadis, who killed General Soleimani in a 2020 U.S. airstrike on Baghdad airport along with General Soleimani, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force.
As for the 100 missile boats, they represent Iran's best tactic – wolf attacks at sea, which use large numbers of speedboats to besiege opponents**. Not long ago, the United States announced the formation of a maritime defense alliance called "Prosperity Guardian", with the participation of 22 countries, aimed at countering the pro-Iranian Houthis in Yemen to protect commercial navigation in the Red Sea. The action caused discontent in Iran, where the deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said that the continued "criminal acts" of the United States and its allies could lead to a naval blockade in the Mediterranean. A few days ago, Iran's USS Alborz** also entered the Red Sea in support of the Houthis' position. In a televised address, Salami also said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy has achieved in terms of offensive and defensive forces"A brilliant leap forward", and claims to be capable of challenging the world's naval power. Earlier, the commander of the Iranian Navy, Rear Admiral Shahram Ilani, announced that the Iranian Navy has added to its arsenal the "Talaye" and "Nasir" cruise missiles, as well as *** systems equipped with reconnaissance systems and electronic warfare systems for the first time.
"Taleye" is a "smart" missile system with a range of more than a thousand kilometers, and "Nasir" has a range of more than 100 kilometers. The USS Eisenhower nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has arrived in the Red Sea, and the 48 F A-18 fighter-bombers and 6 ** aircraft carriers that make up the carrier strike group are the USS Philippine Sea missile cruiser, the USS Graveley, the USS Stepsim, and the USS Carney, as well as the destroyers USS Mason and USS Rab. Iran's provocative actions against the US military are not unusual. On November 28 last year, an Iranian drone repeatedly ignored warnings and flew over the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, forcing the US aircraft carrier to change course. The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Rezatan Jisri, even said that when the United States is in the Persian Gulf, it is like they are trapped in a 'pocket', and the edge of this pocket (the Strait of Hormuz) is in our hands. They are completely within the range of our missiles (**. Therefore, the United States should "act rationally" in the Persian Gulf.
It is worth mentioning that Iran does not just talk empty words, and they often take some unexpected actions against the US military.