Iran Middle East crisis live: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warns it will ‘change geography of war’ if US escalates conflict The US president said in an interview ahead of the United Nations meeting that he was considering ‘wiping Iran out’ Yohannes Lowe Tue 22 Sep 2026 08.14 BSTLast modified on Tue 22 Sep 2026 08.15 BST Share Key events 16m ago IRGC warns it will 'change the geography of the war' if US escalates the conflict An Iranian woman in Tehran walks next to an anti-US billboard carrying a sentence in Persian that reads, 'The devil army will be drowned in the Persian Gulf' An Iranian woman in Tehran walks next to an anti-US billboard carrying a sentence in Persian that reads, 'The devil army will be drowned in the Persian Gulf' From 16m ago Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it would “change the geography of the war” if the US escalates the conflict, after Donald Trump issued fresh threats against the Islamic Republic.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump said “very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future”, adding that the options he was considering were “wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal”.
A spokesperson for the IRGC, Hossein Mohebbi, responded with a warning that if the US were to launch fresh attacks against Iran, Tehran would use “new weapons with capabilities into the battle”.
“If a new aggression takes place, we will definitely change the weapons and geography of the war,” Mohebbi was quoted as having said.
“Our targets will no longer necessarily be the same as before,” he said, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, adding that Iran has targets that have not yet been struck.
The comments come after attacks on the Saudi capital, Riyadh, by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
The Houthis, who operate independently of Iran’s instructions, have seized territory along the country’s Red Sea coastline, including near the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital shipping route that links Asia to Europe via the Red Sea and Suez canal.
Iran hugely benefits from the Houthis fighting Saudi Arabia, as the Saudis are more likely in turn to put pressure on the US to relent over Iran, which has insisted it will not allow the reopening of the strait of Hormuz until all its conditions have been met.
With negotiations to reach an agreement stalled, traffic in the vital maritime corridor continues to be severely disrupted, with Iran firing on commercial ships and demanding it approve passage.
In response, the US, which started the war on Iran alongside Israel in February, is maintaining a counter-blockade of Iranian ports while intensifying economic pressure.
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