Iran Threatens US Troops in Mideast

Stand for Israel | April 8, 2019

IRAN-HISTORY-REVOLUTION-ISLAM — Iranian soldiers visit the tomb of Iran's late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on the occasion of 40th anniversary of Khomeini's return from exile from Paris at his mausoleum in southern Tehran on February 01, 2019. - Iran, which began celebrations for the 40th anniversary of its Islamic revolution on Friday, is the world's largest Shiite Muslim country and a fierce rival of Sunni kingpin Saudi Arabia. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

If someone or something acts like a terrorist, you might as well call them a terrorist. That is exactly what the United States just did…and Iran, in turn, acted as you’d expect. The Jerusalem Post’s Seth J. Frantzman tells us that the American declaration of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terror organization has led to Iran threatening attacks on American troops in the Middle East:

Iranian Major General Mohammed Ali Jafari warned that US troops could be targets in response to reports that the US would list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a designated terrorist organization. Jafari is the head of the IRGC.

Jafari made the threat on Sunday, stating that the US forces in “West Asia” by which he meant parts of the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran’s near abroad. “If the Americans take such a stubborn measure and endanger our national security we will put in place counter-measures in line with the police of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said. Under those circumstances, US forces would no longer be safe in the region, he said, using the word “no longer enjoy calm,” as a veiled threat.

The comments were widely reported in Iranian media, one of the few foreign policy articles amid the flooding crises that has caused a massive national emergency in Iran…