{"id":306073,"date":"2025-04-01T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306073"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:02:35","slug":"a-glass-chamber-irgc-says-50000-american-forces-in-10-military-bases-within-irans-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306073","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A glass chamber\u2019: IRGC says \u201850,000 American forces\u2019 in 10 military bases within Iran\u2019s reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 March 31, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>A high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns that\u00a0the US forces in the region are sitting in a \u201cglass house\u201d and should avoid \u201cthrowing stones at others.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC\u2019s Aerospace Division, made the remarks on the sidelines of ceremonies to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tehran on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Americans have 10 [military] bases in the region, particularly around Iran and 50,000 troops based in there,\u201d Hajizadeh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means they are sitting in a glass house; and when one sits in a glass house, one does not throw stones at others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top IRGC\u2019s comment come after threats by US President Donald Trump to bomb Iran if it refuses to reach &#8220;a new deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Trump said Iran will be bombed if it does not make a deal with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they don\u2019t make a deal, there will be bombing,\u201d he said in an interview with NBC News. He also threatened to punish Iran with what he called \u201csecondary tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X account on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said US President Trump\u2019s open threat of \u201cbombing\u201d the country is an affront to global peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn open threat of \u2018bombing\u2019 by a Head of State against Iran is a shocking _affront_ to the very essence of International Peace and Security,\u201d Baghaei wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2025\/03\/31\/745355\/Iran-IRGC-commander-US-troops-glass-house-throw-stones\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander reminds President Trump of the old adage \u201cpeople in glass houses shouldn\u2019t throw stones\u201d, following his threat to bomb Iran if it doesn\u2019t agree a new nuclear deal. 50,000 U.S. military personnel are within reach of Iran\u2019s missiles  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073\/revisions\/306074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}