IRGC spokesman warns limited US strike would spark global energy crisis
The warning follows a reported tanker sinking in the Strait of Hormuz and US consideration of a bunker-buster weapon against Iran.
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Map: The Gulf and Hormuz, marking Strait of Hormuz
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman said even a limited US military action against Iran would trigger a global energy crisis, according to Sepah News.
The warning comes after Iran's military leadership said the Strait of Hormuz stays shut until its conditions are met, and after the IRGC reported another tanker struck a mine in the waterway. The US has said an Iranian strike sank the American-linked ship GFS Pride while it was under tow in the strait. CBS News has reported that the White House is preparing plans for a bunker-buster weapon against Iran, following a third tanker attack in the strait within two days.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said the strait could reopen within six days, with talks with Washington resuming on the seventh if the US meets Iran's conditions. That offer remains unmet. Trump has said Iran has been "systematically destroyed, both Militarily and Financially" and warned of finishing the job if it does not change course, adding that the US would act alone. He has also said Russia must stay away from Iran, linking the Iran standoff to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The IRGC spokesman's language repeats the maximalist framing Tehran has used throughout the standoff, but it now sits on top of tanker strikes, mine incidents and a reported sinking that have made the Hormuz blockage operational rather than rhetorical. Combined with reports that Washington is weighing direct military escalation rather than another stalled mediation round, and with Iran's own conditional reopening offer still unmet, officials on both sides are now talking in terms of strikes and closures rather than negotiation. That keeps the Hormuz-linked risk premium in crude oil supported.