US should move bases away if it pursues sanctions - Iran guards
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday Washington should move its bases and avoid "miscalculations" over new sanctions against Tehran, Iranian agencies reported.
The Trump administration imposed the new sanctions on Tuesday over Iran's ballistic missile programme and said Tehran's "malign activities" in the Middle East undercut any positive contributions coming from the 2015 nuclear accord.
Iran says its programme to develop ballistic missiles is defensive and does not violate the nuclear accord.
"If the United States wants to pursue sanctions against Iran's defences and the Guards, then it has to move its regional bases to a distance of about 1,000 km (620 miles) around Iran and be aware that it would pay a high price for any miscalculations," Tasnim and other news agencies quoted Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari as saying.
