Iran’s President Pezeshkian Says Regime at ‘Full-Scale War’ With The U.S.
Iran’s proxy terrorist group Houthi declares naval blockade against Saudi Arabia.
As Iran intensifies missile and drone attacks against neighboring Arab states, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that the regime is in a “full-scale war” after the United States. “The reality is that today the Islamic Republic of Iran is engaged in a full-scale war,” the Iranian leader said on Monday.
On Monday, Iran launched fresh strikes against Kuwait and Bahrain. “Bahrain sounded its missile alert sirens Monday morning, while Kuwait said its air defenses were firing at an incoming Iranian barrage,” the Associated Press reported. “Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry condemned Iranian drone strikes targeting the country’s air traffic systems, saying they endanger travel for civilians.”
Footage shows an IRGC launch from Lar, Fars Province, Iran, most likely targeting Bahrain. pic.twitter.com/rWXt5Hmvxy
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 20, 2026
The Iranian president’s statement comes as Iran’s proxy Houthis terrorist group announced a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, a move aimed at further disrupting global oil and gas supply. Earlier this week, Iran reportedly ordered the Yemen-based jihadist group to close the Red Sea Strait of Bab el-Mandeb if the U.S. continued its retaliatory military strike. The Bab el-Mandeb ranks as the second-busiest waterway in the region, behind the Strait of Hormuz.
Reuters reported:
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that opens a new front against the United States in its war on Iran and widens the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf. (…)
Iran had been pressing the Houthis to close the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea if the U.S. continued to attack Iranian power infrastructure. The full closure of the strait would cut global oil supply by 7% as it would leave most Saudi oil exports unable to leave the region. The disruption would add to the massive cut to global oil flows from the war in the Gulf, which has already reduced shipments by 10% of global supply.
In their statement, the Houthis’ armed forces said they were declaring “a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye’, effective immediately” in response to what they called “an unjust and oppressive siege” imposed on Yemen by the Saudis.
The Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen has announced a total “ban” on maritime navigation by Saudi Arabia, under the principle of “blockade for blockade,” citing their full readiness to response to any “reckless acts” by the Kingdom of Saudi. pic.twitter.com/zkkwKOb0bk
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 20, 2026
Iran continues attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. “Two commercial ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz caught fire and had to be evacuated after being struck by projectiles near the coast of Oman. Iran, without explicitly claiming responsibility, said two tankers ‘exploded’ and were immobilised after travelling an ‘unsafe southern route,'” Sky News (UK) reported Monday.
Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over. pic.twitter.com/KJ203VKate
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 20, 2026
Last week, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to secure the waterway while reimposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports, after a wave of unprovoked attacks on commercial shipping in the region by Tehran.
Several ships attempted to leave the Hormuz area without "approval" from the Islamic regime in Iran so once again, the regime attacked them.
This regime needs to be stopped for good. They’re an absolute menace to the entire world. pic.twitter.com/zYSDXQf5Hc
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) July 20, 2026
The U.S. carried out another wave of overnight strikes against Iranian military targets, hitting the regime for the eighth consecutive night. Central Command (CENTCOM) disclosed on Sunday night that U.S. forces “targeted Iranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and communications networks to further diminish Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
WATCH: U.S. forces carry out a ninth straight night of strikes against Iran.
CENTCOM says the latest operation targets Iranian military command centers, air defenses, missile and drone launch sites, coastal surveillance systems, maritime capabilities, and communications… pic.twitter.com/GlFFcgKd8O
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 20, 2026
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Legally, isn’t this a blank check for Trump flatten them?
I mean legally, not in the opinion pool of libtards.
Trump has had a blank check for quite sometime, just not the balls!
Does your mommy know you say ugly words on her computer ?
Hold on there, we also have the Houthis naval blockade to contend with, who knows how many jet skis they may have rented? They could even have a row boat.
“Full scale war?”
Don’t be a tease, you little minx!
Full scale war eh? Well, terms accepted. We should not show them exactly what a full scale war, at least a full scale air war, is like. What they’ve received recently are love taps.
We should proceed to flatten everything of value including government buildings, military barracks, and every factory involved in their military supply chain. We should also mine their harbors, crater their airports, bomb all railways, and flatten their television and radio sources. And that’s just the first night.
These IRGC guys understand that they can puff and posture while the global media will amplify their words and cover their feet, part iron, part clay — a divided, weakened kingdom that will eventually collapse. Meanwhile, if we really engaged in the proffered, “full scale war,” we’d be accused of a “disproportional response.”
we’d be accused of a “disproportional response
And it would be a meaningless accusation by meaningless entities that could do nothing more than wring their hands and look sad,
Not going so well as hoped
Sure it is, at least for the clear eyed. The Iranian regime is not gonna surrender absent widespread death and destruction that compels it. The problem is the Trump Admin, like those before it, must weigh the cost of that death/destruction not just in humanitarian terms or even immediate economic terms but also the longer term of stability for any successor Iranian govt and how much it might cost the USA and rest of the world directly in blood and treasure and indirectly in large disruption to oil/gas markets (particularly Asia for both and Europe for LNG) and the interruption of delivery of nitrogen fertilizer.
IMO Trump should have bitten the bullet in the early Spring, refused to extend the initial cease-fire absent the Iranian regime backing down/opening the Strait/halting attacks to include proxy forces and publicly and unambiguously pledging to behave. That would have allowed us to kick the snot out of Iran including infrastructure to render them basically impotent and seriously at risk of internal revolt.
The Europeans would/did oppose such. As would oil/fuel import dependant Australia, NZ and Japan. Our domestic Agriculture and shipping/trucking industries wouldn’t like it either. Nor would consumers like sustained gas prices when oil prices rose towards $150 per barrel.
TL/DR This was never gonna be a few days/2-3 weeks of bombing to compel Iranian regime to surrender with limited damage to infrastructure allowing some friendly successor govt to walk right in and start exporting cheap oil/gas/fertilizer. That scenario was an unrealistic pipedream.
USA needs to beef up domestic security to discover plots to destroy property/kill people within USA.
Hey, remember when there used to “a gun behind every blade of grass?”
Good times, Admiral!
It still won’t fly out where I am.
Iran will just have to attack Massachusetts, or New Jersey, or California, or Oregon.
As a Masshole, I can can tell you some are ready.
Iran just declared war. Congress? Why aren’t you declaring war back?
If their invasion of our sovereign territory — our embassy — didn’t move Congress to deal with them, this won’t, either.
Congress would prefer to not declare war in any conflict in order to keeps its options open:
If a war goes badly, they can blame the POTUS.
If the war goes well, they can claim partial responsibility for not having prevented the POTUS from waging the war.
This is why congressional support for a conflict is usually tepid. They avoid the appearance of being “all in” or “completely opposed.”
What precisely would a formal declaration of War by Congress in response to this Iranian declaration ‘allow’ the USA to do that isn’t ‘allowed’ at present?
Is Pezeski’s face that of a deranged lunatic, or what?
They all have the faces of deranged lunatics.
They’ve been at war with us since they invaded our territory. We just haven’t bothered fighting back.
Not convinced were doing that now, to be honest.
It just goes to show you that all the previous negotiations were of no sincere meaning and value with reference to Iran. You don’ t just declare war had you’d been sincere. Trump provided them every chance to reconcile the conflict with no further damage. They now will pay the ultimate price. For those of you who said Trump has no balls you don’t know the man.
It sounds like it is time the Houthis navy was parked on the bottom of the sea.
As far as dealing with muslims that is a bad thing to start with. They lie and any agreement will be broken by them. The koran tells them that it is ok to lie to non-mussies, so they do.
Is he still alive?
He’s only mostly dead.
Trump has certainly given Iran every opportunity to act rationally, but their system of thinking does not conform to Western logic. It’s my opinion supported by nothing that Iran is rejoicing at the over-reaction to the death of two of our military. Their hope is to draw the U.S. into an endless and futile ground war: they have Afghanistan and Iraq as their precedents. Drag it out, drag it out, drag it out, and the U.S. will give up and go home. (The Soviets gave up as well).
Is there a way to end the war without an invasion? I’m not so sure.
‘Is there a way to end the war without an invasion?’ Easy, destroy the infrastructure. Literally blow up and reduce to rubble every power plant, dam, refineries, water treatment plants, Destroy their irrigation canals, drop their bridges, destroy their domestic natural gas distribution systems. Set a line 30 miles from the coast and advise them to evacuate b/c were gonna level it with literally no building left standing. Crater every runway in the Nation and then do the same for every roadway so they can’t be used for flight operations. Seize ALL Iranian financial assets including personal accounts. Block access to any financial markets, sanction any Nation who doesn’t cooperate. Block all outside aid/assistance to Iran declaring a blockade of land, sea, air. Take under fire anyone attempting to violate the blockade.
Do that and even if they don’t ‘give up’ we can declare a real victory and mostly go home. Repeat as necessary until the Iranian regime is either overthrown by domestic uprising, they starve to death, die from exposure, disease, dehydration or they make the smart decision to give up.
Needs to be done NOW. I read Iran bombed Kuwait’s de salination operation. That provided water to 90% of Kuwaitis.
Finish it. IF the regime is annihilated then hopefully the Arabs will hep the Persians get their lives back. They don’t need to fight each other. BUT radical Muslims must learn a lesson.
Iran’s President Pezeshkian Says Regime at ‘Full-Scale War’ With The U.S.
The mouse that roared !
“We are at full scale war with the USA! So we will immediately attack civilian cargo ships and two other nations who are not the USA!”