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Iran's Larijani: 'Whole region will go dark' if US targets Iran's power infrastructure
·Tehran, Iran
Ali Larijani, senior Iranian official, warned that if the US escalates to targeting Iran's power infrastructure, 'the whole region will go dark.' He described any such move as a 'grave miscalculation' that Iran would make Trump pay for. The threat targets Gulf-wide power grids — a distinct and more sweeping threat than Khatam al-Anbiya's earlier oil/gas warning.
Ali Larijani, Iran's senior political official and former parliamentary speaker, issued a stark warning in response to reported US consideration of strikes on Iran's power infrastructure. "The whole region will go dark," Larijani said, warning that any US escalation to targeting Iran's electricity grid would provoke retaliation against regional power infrastructure. He vowed Iran would make Trump 'pay for a grave miscalculation' if such strikes occurred. The statement represents a second major Iranian infrastructure counter-threat on Day 13, complementing Khatam al-Anbiya's earlier warning to 'set the region's oil and gas on fire.' Together they signal Iran is prepared to respond to any escalation against its own infrastructure with symmetric attacks on Gulf-wide energy and power systems.
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Larijani: If US targets Iran power infrastructure, "the whole region will go dark." Grave miscalculation — Iran will make Trump pay.
Iran warns US against targeting power infrastructure — Larijani threatens region-wide blackout as asymmetric retaliation.