Iran Vows Immediate Response If US Targets Bridges and Power Facilities

A senior IRGC commander has warned that any strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure would trigger immediate retaliatory attacks resulting in power outages across countries hosting US forces and allied nations in the region. Brigadier General Seyed Majid Mousavi, commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Aerospace Force, issued the warning in a statement on social media.

Mousavi said that if Iran’s bridges and power plants are targeted, the result would certainly be electricity blackouts in countries allied with the US military and hosting American forces. He added that Iran would respond to any action against its infrastructure swiftly and firmly.

The warning directly escalates threats Iran’s military has made in recent days regarding regional infrastructure, following an earlier statement from Khatam al-Anbiya spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari that any US strike on Iranian infrastructure would result in the destruction of whatever regional infrastructure remains intact. Mousavi’s statement adds a specific mechanism to that broader threat, naming power grids directly and tying any Iranian retaliation explicitly to blackouts in nations hosting US military bases — a category that includes Gulf states like Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, among others.

The threat comes as Trump has escalated his own rhetoric toward Iranian energy infrastructure specifically, having threatened in recent days to target Iranian power plants and bridges directly, alongside separate threats to seize Kharg Island and strike a deep underground nuclear-linked site known as Pickaxe Mountain. Mousavi’s statement appears to respond directly to those threats, framing Iran’s position as deterrent rather than offensive: a warning meant to raise the cost of any US strike on Iranian power infrastructure by threatening reciprocal disruption to the region’s electricity supply.

Targeting power grids carries distinct escalatory weight compared to military infrastructure strikes, since electricity disruptions affect civilian populations broadly and indiscriminately, extending well beyond any military target to hospitals, water treatment, and everyday civilian life in host nations that aren’t themselves direct parties to the US-Iran conflict. That civilian exposure mirrors concerns already raised about Iran’s blockade threats against shipping and the Ansar Allah blockade against Saudi Arabia — each case involving retaliatory measures that would primarily burden populations and economies beyond the immediate combatants.

This statement adds to a rapidly accumulating list of Iranian military threats issued over the past several days across multiple domains — naval, aerial, and now specifically infrastructure-focused — as the conflict continues into its 12th consecutive night with casualties mounting on both sides. Whether Mousavi’s warning reflects a genuine operational plan or serves primarily as a deterrent message aimed at discouraging further US escalation will likely become clearer only if strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure actually occur and trigger the described retaliation.