Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

10/22Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi said Iran's defence doctrine had changed: "if a country attacks us, we will both respond and launch an offensive", warning renewed US attacks could prompt Iran to move against neighbouring countries.

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10/17Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said two oil tankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz after switching off positioning systems and using a route Iran had not authorised, and that one was crossing "with US support".

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10/10Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said late on 10 October that an unnamed crude oil supertanker hit a naval mine and caught fire while using an unauthorised route through the Strait of Hormuz with its navigation systems off, and warned other tankers of a similar fate.

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09/21Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC air defence forces said they tracked and destroyed a US MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz with a new air defence system. No US confirmation was published.

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09/21Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said that if the US escalates, Iran would change the geography of the war and bring new weapons with new capabilities into the battle.

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09/03Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi said in a statement on state TV that the deaths of four people at the Sirik wedding, which Iran blames on the US, would not go unanswered and would definitely be avenged.

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09/01Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said its strike on a US base in Jordan killed a large number of US forces. There was no confirmation from Jordan or the US at the time. The Pentagon count stood at 21 US deaths for the whole war as of 9 October.

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08/26Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: An IRGC spokesman said Iran and Oman have reached agreements on their shares of the Strait of Hormuz and its revenues, and accused the US of obstructing and delaying their talks, according to Tasnim. No terms were given.

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08/08Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi, quoted by Tasnim, said reopening the Strait of Hormuz was subject to Iran's own mechanisms and conditions and was unrelated to the Iran-Oman negotiations. A US official said the same day that Iran-Oman progress could soon reopen the strait.

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07/25Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said, in a statement carried by Fars, that its attacks destroyed 17 drones, an F-15 in a hangar, a P-8, a C-17 and eight refuelling aircraft at bases across the region, without naming locations.

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07/16Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC threatened to halt Middle East energy exports over the US naval blockade, saying oil and gas exports from the region 'will be either for everyone or for no one'.

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07/13Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebi said the US had 'seriously endangered the security of the world's oil and gas supply' and that Iran would continue to exercise sovereignty over and management of the strait.

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06/26Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC navy said it targeted US deployment sites in the region after a US 'violation of commitments' and that Article 5 of the Islamabad memorandum puts control of transit through the strait under Iran's responsibility.

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05/19Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said fibre-optic cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz could be subject to a permit system, citing Iran's sovereignty over its territorial sea.

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04/08Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC warned fighting would resume if Israel did not halt its attacks on Lebanon; Tasnim reported Tehran would withdraw from the agreement if Israel kept violating it, and parliament speaker Ghalibaf called the ceasefire and negotiations unreasonable given the violations.

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03/27Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC aerospace commander Majid Moosavi said the equation would no longer be an eye for an eye and urged workers at US- and Israeli-linked companies in the region to leave their workplaces; Araghchi said Iran would exact a heavy price for strikes on steel plants and nuclear sites.

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03/23Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said it would target power plants supplying US bases if the US struck Iranian power plants.

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03/16Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini said most of the IRGC's weapons stock remained intact, that the missiles in use were about a decade old, and that Iran had not yet fired missiles produced since the June 2025 war.

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03/15Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC navy commander Alireza Tangsiri said Iran had not closed the Strait of Hormuz and the waterway was only being controlled.

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03/15Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC warned the US to move its industries out of the Middle East and urged people to stay away from factories in which US companies hold shares, after strikes killed workers at non-military factories in Iran.

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03/14Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The spokesman for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, said that if Iran's oil, economic or energy assets were attacked, Iran would destroy all oil, economic and energy infrastructure in the region belonging to companies with American shares or that cooperate with the US.

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03/11Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Iran said that on the morning of 11 March it attacked Israel's military intelligence agency, a naval base in Haifa and an Israeli radar system.

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03/08Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: An IRGC spokesperson said Iran would retaliate if US and Israeli attacks on its energy infrastructure continued, and the IRGC said it had enough supplies to sustain drone and missile attacks across the region for up to six months.

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