Iranian Army Spokesperson Akraminia says in a possible future war, new issues could be raised, such as regional energy infrastructure

Iranian Army Spokesperson Akraminia says in a possible future war, new issues could be raised, such as regional energy infrastructure.

Rhetoric of this kind from Iranian military officials, naming regional energy infrastructure as a potential target set, has historically been the standard escalation ladder in Gulf standoffs: the threat to third-party supply is raised precisely because it is the channel with the widest blast radius, touching Saudi, Emirati and Qatari facilities rather than Iranian barrels alone. In past episodes the pattern has been that explicit infrastructure threats widen the geopolitical risk premium in crude and lift tanker rates and war-risk insurance through the Strait of Hormuz, with the premium tending to fade if no kinetic follow-through materialises. The distinction worth drawing is between rhetoric aimed at deterrence, which has typically capped itself, and rhetoric accompanied by proxy attacks on shipping or facilities, which is when the premium has proven durable. The official's rank matters: army spokespeople sit below the IRGC in operational control of the Gulf theatre, and IRGC signalling has historically been the more reliable tell. What bears watching is whether the language is repeated by senior IRGC or political figures and whether freight and insurance markets begin pricing the threat before spot crude does.