This is how they talk, and how they have always talked, even during the Obama administration that supposedly secured peace with the Islamic Republic. But how they act is a different matter. During the Obama administration, they regularly harassed American ships in the Arabian Gulf. Now that has stopped. Interesting.
“Iran says U.S. bases and aircraft carriers within missile range,” Reuters, November 21, 2018:
LONDON (Reuters) – An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that U.S. bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range of Iranian missiles, as tensions rise between Tehran and Washington.
“They are within our reach and we can hit them if they (Americans) make a move,” Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards’ airspace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.
Hajizadeh said the Guards had improved the precision of their missiles, and specifically said they could hit the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Al Dhafra base in the United Arab Emirates and Kandahar base in Afghanistan that host U.S. forces….