WASHINGTON: A new task force has been created to disrupt land routes into Iran used for supplies of weapons and illicit materials, President Donald Trump said Sunday, the US military said. The US Central Command said Saturday it was forming a 20-member team to bolster a US naval blockade of Iranian ports during the eight-month war.
Task Force Iron Gate is operational in Iran. It is coupled with the greatest Naval Blockade in history, very little gets in or out of Iran!” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform. The force “will further constrain Iran’s ability to finance terrorism, rebuild weapons factories, and replenish their military,” CENTCOM chief Admiral Brad Cooper said in Saturday’s announcement.
A team of civilian and military personnel stationed in Florida will work with U.S. government agencies to “prevent the movement of advanced weapons systems, dual-use technologies, sanctioned materials and illegal sources of income across Iran’s land borders and the Caspian Sea, the statement said.
Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Washington’s current move “will fail,” and will not result in economic collapse in the Islamic republic. Hossein Mohebi, spokesman for the Guards, told Fars news agency that “The United States will never be able to impose the economic blockade it is pursuing and proposing under various names and through different plans.
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