Following a new directive from the Leader, Iran's Armed Forces are updating target plans, strengthening offensive capabilities and preparing for a confrontation that would extend beyond previous battlefields.

TEHRAN -- The IRGC warned on Sunday that any new act of aggression against Iran will be met with a response extending beyond geographical boundaries, declaring that American military bases across the region—once the backbone of U.S. power projection—have been destroyed by Iran and turned into a source of insecurity for their host countries.

IRGC spokesman Second Brigadier General Hussein Mohebbi made the remarks after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Commander-in-Chief of Iran's Armed Forces Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei ordered senior military commanders to ensure that any level or type of enemy threat is met with an "immediate, impactful, and geographically unrestricted response."

Referring to the Leader's new directive, Mohebbi said, "A broad operational scope has been delineated to inflict damage on the enemy and achieve full deterrence."

"The IRGC has placed the identification of new targets and the planning of operations across new geographical areas on its agenda."

The spokesman stressed that the Iranian armed forces are better prepared than ever to deliver a decisive response to the enemy.

Mohebbi said the adversary has now turned to negotiations and mediation amid its failure to overthrow the Islamic Republic and disintegrate Iran, while facing difficulties in reopening the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

He said the United States has been unable to reopen the Strait of Hormuz even for a few hours despite possessing the world's largest navy and maintaining a military presence in the region for decades.

"The U.S. military doctrine was based on establishing bases across the region and pledging to provide security for regional countries," Mohebbi said. "Today, however, these bases have been destroyed by Iran and turned into a source of insecurity for their host countries."

He also emphasized that the war on Iran collapsed the image portrayed by the United States of intelligence superiority and dealt a blow to Washington in the economic sphere.

"This war demonstrated that the United States is not invincible and is incapable even of defending itself," he asserted.

Iran's Army issued its own warning that American targets lying beyond West Asia are within the reach of the Islamic Republic's Armed Forces, and that any renewed U.S. aggression would trigger a confrontation extending beyond the region.

Spokesman Brigadier General Muhammad Akraminia outled the outcomes of an earlier meeting between senior commanders of the Armed Forces and the Leader.

Akraminia noted that the Leader emphasized during the meeting that a future confrontation would not remain confined to previous battlefields.

According to the spokesman, the Iranian response to any renewed American aggression would be "more crushing and extensive" than the one the aggressors were served during the previous unprovoked American-Israeli aggression that targeted the Islamic Republic.

Throughout the aggression, he said, the Armed Forces' response extended from the Israeli-occupied territories to US military bases in regional countries.

However, the forces have strengthened their operational readiness, expanded their defensive and offensive capabilities, and have been instructed to update their target bank to include more U.S.-Israeli assets.

"Should a new military adventure be launched, US facilities, equipment, personnel, and interests could be targeted wherever they are within reach," he added.

Akraminia also warned that another war could last considerably longer than the previous one, stressing that U.S. President Donald Trump could not unilaterally determine its duration or terms of conclusion.

The Armed Forces are now better prepared to confront threats than they were at the beginning of the last war, which started on February 28, the spokesman said.

Since the announcement of a unilateral ceasefire by the United States on April 7, the forces have been modernizing their weapons, incorporating new equipment, and introducing advanced technologies and tactics, he noted.

Akraminia laid emphasis on the transition that Iran's military doctrine has undergone from an exclusively defensive doctrine towards a more offensive approach.

He described "smart combat readiness" as a key pillar of Iran's defense strategy, as underlined by the Leader, explaining how the Armed Forces have been focusing on enhancing asymmetric warfare prowess, operational ingenuity, and appropriate tactics.

The spokesman added that Iran has strengthened its electronic warfare and radar capabilities, repaired damaged equipment, and incorporated new offensive and defensive systems into its military structure.

Akraminia said coordination between the Army and the IRGC has been strengthened, with operational plans prepared to counter threats from multiple directions.

He cited attempts during the recent war to arm anti-Islamic Revolution and separatist groups based in Iraq's Kurdistan Region and open a ground front along Iran's western borders.

He noted, however, that military deployments and preemptive operations, supported by fighter jets, missiles, and drones, prevented the groups from achieving their objectives.

The warnings from the IRGC and the Army were reinforced by Defense Minister Mehrad Akhlaghi, who said in a statement that the armed forces have received the Leader's strategic directives "with precision and diligence," describing them as a roadmap for the country's defense establishment.

"We emphasize that the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics considers itself committed and responsible not only in receiving and understanding these guidelines, but also in operationalizing them, realizing them on the ground, and converting them into tangible defense achievements," he said.

"All organizational, industrial, scientific, and technological capacities of the Ministry of Defense will be placed at the service of realizing these directives."

Akhlaghi said the ministry is pursuing "the promotion of intelligent combat readiness and the realization of the strategy of immediate, effective, and proportionate response to any threat, at any point and without geographical limitation."

He added that accelerating the cycle of design, production, and supply of defense equipment and weapons, strengthening industrial and technological infrastructure, and enhancing support for the armed forces are at the center of its actions.

"Our message to any party that targets Iran's security and national interests is clear: any aggression will be met with a proportionate, decisive, and effective response," he said.

"The scope, timing, and consequences of Iran's defense response will not be determined by the aggressors."

On technology, Akhlaghi said the ministry is not merely continuing existing paths but moving toward "a technological leap, foundational innovations, and the achievement of superior defense capabilities."

He said the future of the country's defense authority cannot be built solely through quantitative increases in equipment, but must confront the enemy's calculations with new ideas, advanced technologies, and intelligent solutions.

He cited support for knowledge-based companies, the development of indigenous defense, and the conversion of scientific achievements into operational capabilities as priorities.

The defense minister also emphasized the protection of human capital, describing support for personnel and their families as "an inseparable pillar of the country's defense mission" and "equal to the development of weapons, industrial, and technological power."

The doctrine was further articulated by Mohammad Mokhber, a senior advisor to the Leader, who said in a Sunday post on X that Iran is "rapidly" changing its military deterrence strategies to enable it to strike targets far beyond West Asia in response to a potential new act of aggression.

"Of course, the geography of the threat no longer determines the geography of the response," Mokhber wrote in Farsi.

"The redefinition of the scope of deterrence has gone beyond the regional framework, and the origin, scale, and location of a threat no longer impose any limits on Iran's deterrence calculations."