Iran Press TV
Saturday, 04 April 2026 11:18 AM
Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani says “all American terrorists” will ultimately flee the region in the same way the USS Gerald R. Ford commander fled the Red Sea in the face of Iranian retaliatory strikes.
In a post on his X account on Saturday, Qaani said that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford was forced to retreat from the Red Sea due to fear of Yemeni forces.
“The criminal Trump should apparently fire the commander of the USS Gerald R. Ford too,” Qaani said.
He noted that the US warship, after weeks of “wandering” in the region, ultimately withdrew without transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
“Fearing Yemen’s heroic Mujahedeen and steadfast people, he didn’t dare cross the Bab al-Mandab strait,” Qaani asserted, referring to the strategic chokepoint between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
“After two weeks of wandering and a fabricated story, he fled the Red Sea and the region,” he added.
Qaani reiterated that the “ultimate fate of all American terrorist forces is to flee the region.”
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the US Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, had been sent to West Asia to take part in the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
The US and Israeli regimes launched their military aggression against Iran in late February by attacking 30 targets across Tehran, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several senior Iranian officials.
Since then, Iranian armed forces have retaliated swiftly by launching barrages of missiles and drones at Israeli occupied territories as well as US bases across the region.
According to Iran’s Ministry of Defense, Iranian forces have killed at least 600 American troops at various US bases since the start of the aggression.
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