Iran vows to make Trump pay for ‘grave miscalculation’ if US escalates war

Ali Larijani responds to US threat to hit Iran’s power infrastructure, saying the ‘whole region will go dark’.Published On 12 Mar 2026The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani has warned the United States against escalating the war by hitting key energy infrastructure, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take out Iran’s electric capacity “within one hour”.“If they do that, the whole region will go dark in less than half an hour and darkness provides ample opportunity to hunt down US servicemen running for safety,” Larijani said on X on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Up to 3.2 million people displaced across Iran amid US-Israeli attacks: UNlist 2 of 3Video shows moment Iran strikes US-owned oil tanker near Iraqlist 3 of 3Iran’s new supreme leader issues first statementend of list“While starting a war is easy, it cannot be won with a few tweets. We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation,” he added.The comments come a day after Trump said the US had largely neutralised Iran’s military capabilities in the Israel-war-on-Iran" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="38678" data-entity-type="event">US-Israel war on Iran, which began on February 28. “They’ve got no navy, they’ve got no air force, they’ve got no anti-aircraft… We’re just riding free range over that country,” the US president told reporters in Maryland.He warned that Washington could strike power systems if it decided to intensify its military campaign. “We could take apart their electric capacity within one hour, and it would take them 25 years to rebuild it,” he said.Later, at a campaign rally in Hebron, Kentucky, Trump claimed the US had already “won” the war with Iran and must now “finish the job”.The US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Thursday said approximately 6,000 targets had been struck in Iran since the US and Israel launched their first strikes 12 days ago.More than 90 Iranian vessels were damaged or destroyed, including more than 60 ships, and over 30 mine-laying vessels were hit since the operation began, CENTCOM said.