Mohsen Razai, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told Al-Mayadeen television channel, which is close to Lebanon's Hezbollah, and said: "If the Americans make a mistake and launch a ground attack on us, we will not stop at targeting their nearby bases, but we will target all the nearby bases as well as the distant American bases."
He also said: "We want to impose costs on the Americans that will make aggression against Iran expensive and cause deterrence."
Mr. Razai emphasized that "from now on, the first issue of our diplomacy with the US is to end the war on all fronts, especially in Lebanon."
He warned that "if insecurity occurs in any of the West Asian countries, its consequences will spread to other countries as well."
Mr Razai told Al-Mayadeen that in his opinion, the "political power" of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump for a ground attack on Iran has reached "the end". He also denied the news of the meeting with Jeddy Vance and other American officials and said that Iran had conveyed its terms to the United States and was waiting for a "clear and transparent" response from Washington.