Iranian army spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia announced that the country’s military doctrine had gradually shifted from defensive to offensive during recent 12-day and 40-day wars, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. “Our country’s military doctrine was defensive in the past, but gradually during these two wars, we witnessed the military doctrine moving from a defensive posture toward an offensive one,” Akraminia said. He explained that the new approach is evident in the military’s rapid and broader responses to attacks as well as its adoption of preemptive operations.
The announcement coincided with sharp condemnation of fresh US sanctions by Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, who asserted that Washington lacked any legal right to pressure foreign banks, companies and airports into ceasing trade with Iran. Baghaei argued that such secondary sanctions breached the principle of sovereign equality among states and that pairing them with a naval blockade would effectively make national sovereignty subject to American approval. This, he warned, risked eroding the sovereignty of United Nations member states and reviving colonial-era dynamics, according to an Arab Times account of his remarks.
As part of the revised posture, Iranian forces have established bounties for US troops in any potential ground incursion, Akraminia revealed. The reward is 5 billion tomans, or approximately $26,000, for killing or capturing an American soldier and rises to 10 billion tomans, about $53,000, when executed by a woman. The army further committed to purchasing the weapon employed in the action for twice its market value, preserving it in a military museum bearing the owner’s name and issuing a replacement of similar type.
Akraminia attributed the doctrinal evolution in part to a perceived sharp decline in American influence across the Middle East, citing the creation by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan of an independent defense and security mechanism. He described the arrangement as the first of its kind in the region that excludes US participation, underscoring Washington’s diminished role. The statements emerge against a backdrop of renewed American economic pressure, including what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent termed the toughest sanctions in history, Reuters reported days earlier.
Since the start of the current US administration in 2025, more than 1,000 Iran-linked persons, vessels and aircraft have been targeted by sanctions, according to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. A naval blockade imposed in April was paused for a month in June but forms part of the broader campaign that officials say aims to isolate Tehran economically without immediate resort to larger military actions. Iran, which has endured US sanctions since 1979, has developed complex smuggling operations to sustain its oil exports despite the restrictions, a New York Times examination concluded.
Iranian leaders have increasingly spoken of moving toward preemptive and offensive capabilities in response to perceived threats throughout 2026, Al Jazeera reported in June following strikes linked to regional tensions. The latest army declaration appears to formalize that trend while the country grapples with inflation and currency pressures exacerbated by the sanctions regime. Akraminia’s comments to state media provided the most explicit confirmation yet of the strategic reorientation.
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