Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that a return to war with the United States was unlikely, but warned the Islamic republic stood ready to respond to any attack.
The statement came a day after Iran accused the US of breaching the ceasefire in place since April, and warned it was prepared to retaliate following the most serious strikes since the truce took effect.
Mohammad Akbarzadeh, deputy political chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, said that while the likelihood of returning to "war is low because of the enemy's weakness, the armed forces are lying in wait with full magazines".
He went on to warn that the military would turn the area along Iran's coastline "into a graveyard for aggressors", in quotes carried by the Tasnim news agency.
Tehran's intelligence ministry, meanwhile, said that the US and Israel were still seeking to overthrow the Islamic republic and partition Iran.
The ministry said it had evidence that they would smuggle "various weapons, ammunition and illegal communication tools, especially Starlink" satellite internet devices, into Iran to foment religious and ethnic divisions and carry out sabotage missions.
