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Senior Military Adviser Threatens Broad Response to Any 'US Plot' Against Iran

Former Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Yahya Rahim-Safavi speaks during Tehran's Friday prayers September 25, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/Files
Former Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Yahya Rahim-Safavi speaks during Tehran's Friday prayers September 25, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/Files
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Senior Military Adviser Threatens Broad Response to Any 'US Plot' Against Iran

Former Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Yahya Rahim-Safavi speaks during Tehran's Friday prayers September 25, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/Files
Former Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Yahya Rahim-Safavi speaks during Tehran's Friday prayers September 25, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/Files

Iran said on Friday it would resist any US plots against it “from the Mediterranean, to the Red Sea and to the Indian Ocean.”

The statements came from General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, as President Hassan Rouhani prepared to leave for the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, Reuters reported.

“If the Americans think of any plots, the Iranian nation will respond from the Mediterranean, to the Red Sea and to the Indian Ocean,” Safavi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

Trump last year withdrew from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal and imposed sanctions on Tehran again.

Earlier, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned Washington against being dragged into a war in the Middle East and said Tehran would meet any offensive action with a crushing response.

According to Reuters, the US said on Thursday it was building a coalition to deter Iranian threats, however, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump wants a peaceful solution to the crisis.

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Iran Media: Russian Rocket Puts Iran Satellite into Space

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying two Ionosfera-M satellites and 18 payloads, including Iran's Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite, blasts off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far-eastern Amur region, Russia July 25, 2025. Roscosmos/Ivan Timoshenko/Handout via REUTERS
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying two Ionosfera-M satellites and 18 payloads, including Iran's Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite, blasts off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far-eastern Amur region, Russia July 25, 2025. Roscosmos/Ivan Timoshenko/Handout via REUTERS
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Iran Media: Russian Rocket Puts Iran Satellite into Space

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying two Ionosfera-M satellites and 18 payloads, including Iran's Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite, blasts off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far-eastern Amur region, Russia July 25, 2025. Roscosmos/Ivan Timoshenko/Handout via REUTERS
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying two Ionosfera-M satellites and 18 payloads, including Iran's Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite, blasts off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far-eastern Amur region, Russia July 25, 2025. Roscosmos/Ivan Timoshenko/Handout via REUTERS

A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace program that has long concerned Western governments.

"The Nahid-2 communications satellite was launched from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome using a Soyuz rocket," state television said.

Weighing 110 kilograms (over 240 pounds), the satellite was designed and manufactured by Iranian engineers, the broadcaster added.

Western governments have long expressed concern that technological advances made in Iran's space program can also be used to upgrade its ballistic missile arsenal, AFP reported.

The launch was announced shortly before nuclear talks between Iran and Britain, France and Germany opened in Istanbul.

In December, Iran announced it had put its heaviest payload to date into space, using a domestically manufactured satellite carrier.

In September, Iran said it had put the Chamran-1 research satellite into orbit using the Ghaem-100 carrier, which is produced by the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division.