Iran’s Revolutionary Guard leader warns US: ‘Finger is on the trigger’

US warships are in the Indian Ocean, an American official has said (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian M. Wilbur/U.S. Navy via AP)

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is “more ready than ever, finger on the trigger”, its commander has said, as US warships head towards the Middle East.

Gen Mohammad Pakpour warned the United States and Israel “to avoid any miscalculation”, in comments reported on Telegram by Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.