ALBAWABA - The U.S. Military announced a new 20-member task force called ‘Iron Gate’ to be formed with the goal of finding ways to disrupt weapons and illicit materials entering Iran from land routes.
The move is considered an expansion of the ongoing U.S. naval blockade on Iran as, according to CENTCOM Chief Brad Cooper, the task force "will further constrain Iran's ability to finance terrorism, rebuild weapons factories, and replenish their military,” in a post on X.
The U.S. naval blockade on Iran is counting its eighth month, restricting passage through the critical Strait of Hormuz trade route and choking global energy supplies.
BREAKING:
US CENTCOM has established a new task force, named Task Force Iron Gate, to prevent Iran from using land routes and the Caspian Sea to bypass sanctions and move weapons, restricted goods, technology and revenue streams across Iran’s land borders
The 20-person team will work with other US government agencies to disrupt the movement of advanced weapons, dual-use technologies and sanctioned materials into and out of Iran.
Now, teams of both civilian and military personnel will coordinate with U.S. government agencies on "preventing the movement of advanced weapons systems, dual-use technologies, sanctioned materials, and illegal revenue streams across Iran's land borders and the Caspian Sea,"
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard promised that the move "will fail" to bring about economic collapse in the Islamic republic, Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi said:
"The United States will never be able to impose the economic blockade it is pursuing and proposing under various names and through different plans.
"The Americans will not achieve their objective of exerting extreme economic pressure to bring about the collapse and disintegration of Iran's economy."
The IRGC spokesman added that the U.S. would be "powerless to block" communication and road channels between Iran and its neighbors.
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