Iran warns US ships in the Indian Ocean face attack if war resumes

Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary, Mohsen Rezaei, has warned that US ships in the Indian Ocean will be attacked if war with America starts again.

According to remarks carried by the Iran Embassy in Hyderabad and Indian outlets on Sunday, Rezaei said US ships would be hit wherever they are inside the Indian Ocean unless they leave. He claimed Tehran had built capabilities for a naval confrontation, raised the speed of its hypersonic missiles from Mach 6 to Mach 10, and improved electronic warfare and air defences. He said Iran was fully prepared and would answer with more numerous and more painful strikes if America started the war.

The warning lands on a conflict that has not settled. The US and Israel struck Iran in late February. A ceasefire framework in June frayed, and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains a core dispute. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that Hormuz would stay closed until Iran's rights are recognised. Fox News reported Trump saying he was in "deciding mode," listing options that included wiping Iran out, letting it rot economically, or making a deal.

For Indian readers, the Indian Ocean is not a distant map label. Energy routes, naval presence, and any wider escalation sit close to how India watches West Asia.

Rezaei's line widens the threat picture beyond the Gulf. Whether Iran can actually reach deep into the ocean is a separate military question. The political signal is clearer: Tehran wants Washington to treat any restart of full war as a fight that touches US ships far from Iranian shores.

Watch whether Washington answers the threat in public, and whether shipping insurers and Gulf energy markets move on the comments. Hormuz, Houthi strikes in the region, and any Trump decision on the next phase will decide how seriously the Indian Ocean warning lands.