Iranian government spokesperson says Iran is prepared for all scenarios, SNN reports

Iranian government spokesperson says Iran is prepared for all scenarios, SNN reports.

Statements of this kind from Iranian officials, carried by semi-official domestic outlets rather than state television proper, sit in the standard repertoire of coercive signalling: deliberately non-specific, designed to keep the adversary guessing rather than to announce anything. The relevant precedent is that escalation in this theatre has tended to be telegraphed through a chain of such remarks long before any kinetic event, and the market has historically priced the rhetoric cheaply while paying attention only to concrete follow-ons: force posture changes, movements in the Gulf, and any shift in the status of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The channel that matters for crude is not the headline itself but freight rates, war-risk insurance premia on Gulf loadings, and the prompt spread, all of which have on past occasions repriced only when rhetoric was paired with verifiable physical disruption. A distinction worth drawing is between a spokesperson's boilerplate, which has minimal signal, and parallel messaging from the IRGC or the Supreme Leader's office, which carries more weight. Worth watching is whether other actors pick up the line, whether there is any accompanying military or diplomatic movement, and how the remarks fit the prevailing state of hostilities rather than the words themselves. As a single unattributed-statement headline, this is the low end of the signal spectrum.