US strikes on Iranian targets... Will they ignite a naval confrontation with Tehran?.
US strikes on Iran could lead to an intensification of the confrontation and raise the escalation to dangerous levels. Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said that his country “will not start a war, but it will respond forcefully to tyranny and anyone who tries to bully it” The former head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian Parliament, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, said that Tehran and Washington are the only ones that do not want a military confrontation between them.