The US and Iran continue to exchange blows, even beyond the battlefield, as the war of optics appears equally important amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia.
Iran's military spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari, issued a warning to the US, saying that if Americans attempted a ground invasion, the consequences would be dire.
Zolfaghari said that US troops would become ‘good food for the sharks of the Persian Gulf’ if they attempted a ground invasion of Iran.
This statement comes amid media reports that the US is considering sending around 10,000 troops to the Middle East, possibly as part of plans to carry out a ground attack on Iran.
Taking a swipe at US President Donald Trump, the Iranian military spokesperson called him a pawn of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and added that he is sending the US Army into 'a deadly quagmire'.
Calling any US attempt to capture Iranian territory nothing more than a dream, he said that the Army of the Islamic Republic has long been waiting for such actions to prove that aggression and occupation will result in nothing but humiliating captivity, dismemberment, and the disappearance of the aggressors.
