# Iran Links Threats to U.S. Bases With Conditions on Strait of Hormuz Shipping

*Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM UTC — Hamer Intelligence Services Desk*

**Published**: 2026-11-11T18:06:33.978Z (38m ago)
**Category**: geopolitics | **Region**: Middle East
**Importance**: 10/10
**Sources**: OSINT
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**Deck**: Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei has warned of possible strikes on U.S. bases in Europe and distant islands if Washington attacks again, while senior officials deny talks with the U.S. and demand conditions to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume negotiations.

Senior Iranian officials are using public threats and bargaining over the Strait of Hormuz to raise the cost of any new U.S. attack.

Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that if the United States attacks Iran again, Tehran would not confine its response to nearby facilities. He stated that Iran may target some U.S. military bases in European countries and some islands that American planners believe Iranian missiles cannot reach. In other comments, Rezaei advised countries hosting U.S. military bases not to cooperate with any American attack on Iran and warned that any location from which U.S. aircraft take off to bomb Iran would be considered a threat and a potential target. He described this as Iran’s natural right under international law.

Rezaei also set out elements of Iran’s military and nuclear posture. He said Iran had captured seven drones and two advanced submarines capable of reaching depths of 6,000 meters intact, attributing this to Iranian capabilities in electronic warfare. He described Iran as working on designs for nuclear-powered ships and submarines and said enriched material was needed for those projects and for possible small modular reactors. According to Rezaei, not even the smallest particle of enriched material will leave Iran.

He presented Iran’s conduct in the confrontation with the United States and Israel as proof that faith comes before technology, arguing that Iran had demonstrated superiority in managing the defensive battlefield. Rezaei also rejected U.S. claims about negotiations, saying American statements about talks in Qatar and other contacts were fabrications intended to ease economic pressure and lower oil prices. He said Iran had communicated its conditions and that the Americans knew these terms.

Parallel to Rezaei’s warnings, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf used an interview with Al Jazeera to lay out Tehran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz. Ghalibaf said Iran had reached an understanding with Oman on shipping lanes in the strait. In a separate remark, he said the United States must fulfill seven conditions for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened and for talks to resume. He told Al Jazeera that Iran does not want war to continue and prioritizes peace, provided its demands are met.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian added a climate and nuclear angle to the messaging. He said that, despite sanctions and exclusion from international financial resources and technologies that he described as unjust, Iran has continued with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop clean energy. On nuclear weapons, he repeated a position that such weapons amount to the destruction of crops, human life and future generations, and said no power has the right, in the name of security or military superiority, to endanger the foundations of life on Earth.

Together, these statements present an image of Iran willing to threaten U.S. forces and bases far beyond the Gulf while insisting on strict control of its own nuclear materials and on conditions for any reopening of Hormuz and renewed talks.

Developments to watch include any public response by U.S. or European governments to Rezaei’s threats, clearer detail from Tehran on the seven conditions linked to Hormuz, and visible changes in shipping patterns or military deployments around the strait.