The spokesman for the IRGC says Iran now possesses more advanced weapons compared to those it used during the 40-day war, emphasizing his country's readiness to respond more forcefully to any new aggression, Saba reports

Rhetoric from IRGC spokesmen of this kind is a recurring feature of the Iran-Israel escalation cycle, and the pattern in past episodes has been that forceful declarations of readiness and advanced capability tend to precede, accompany, or follow retaliatory exchanges rather than initiate them independently. The transmission channel into energy is well established: crude, particularly the front of the Brent and WTI curves, prices a geopolitical premium on threats to Gulf supply and transit through Hormuz, and that premium has historically faded quickly when rhetoric is not followed by kinetic action, while any actual disruption to shipping, insurance, or freight converts it into a sustained move. The relevant distinction is between deterrent signalling aimed at an adversary's decision-making and genuine preparation for operations; the former is the base case in episodes of this kind, the latter tends to be corroborated by observable steps such as force posture changes, proxy activity, or shipping incidents. The reference to a prior named conflict frames the claim as deterrence after hostilities rather than a warning ahead of them, which in comparable sequences has carried less immediate weight for risk pricing. The follow-ons worth noting are whether the language is echoed at a more senior political level, any movement in tanker insurance rates and Gulf freight, and whether the other party responds in kind. As verbal signalling from a military spokesman, the statement is consistent with an established pattern of posture maintenance between rounds of confrontation.