Top Iranian general threatens to 'cut off' Trump's hand over potential military strikes

One of Iran’s astir elder officials issued a nonstop menace against President Donald Trump Thursday portion informing that U.S. subject enactment would provoke retaliation against American forces crossed the Middle East, according to Iranian media reports.

The remarks came arsenic well-placed sources confirmed to Fox News Digital astatine slightest 1 American craft bearer was being repositioned toward the Middle East amid rising tensions with Tehran.

Senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wide Mohsen Rezaei, a subordinate of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, reportedly made his menace during a nationalist address.

"Trump has said his manus is connected the trigger. We volition chopped disconnected his manus and his finger," Rezaei said, according to Iran International.

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Senior Iranian wide Mohsen Rezaei issues nonstop menace against President Donald Trump arsenic U.S. repositions craft bearer amid rising tensions with Tehran, according to reports. (Ayoub Ghaderi/YJC/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

The outlet besides said that Rezaei maintained that Iran would wantonness immoderate conception of a ceasefire if attacked. 

"If we determination forward, determination volition beryllium nary speech of a ceasefire anymore," helium said. "You bash not wage attraction to the restraint and strategical patience we person shown. Stop close now. Step back, different nary of your bases successful the portion volition beryllium safe," Rezaei added.

The menace surfaced arsenic astatine slightest 1 U.S. craft bearer could beryllium moving toward the Middle East, according to sources.

Officials person not disclosed whether it is the USS Abraham Lincoln, presently operating successful the South China Sea, oregon 1 of 2 carriers that departed Norfolk and San Diego earlier this week.

Military sources said transit to the portion could instrumentality astatine slightest a week, with further U.S. air, onshore and oversea assets expected to travel to supply Trump with subject options should helium bid strikes against Iran.

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In this handout photograph provided by the U.S. Navy, a RIM-7P NATO Sea Sparrow Missile launches from Nimitz-class craft bearer USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). (M. Jeremie Yoder/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

Rezaei is 1 of Iran’s astir almighty subject figures. He served arsenic commander-in-chief of the IRGC from 1980 to 1997 and is presently vice president for economical affairs, caput of Iran’s Supreme Council for Economic Coordination and a elder fig successful the Principlist Resistance Front of Islamic Iran.

In 2006, Argentine authorities issued an planetary apprehension warrant for Rezaei successful transportation with the 1994 AMIA Jewish assemblage halfway bombing successful Buenos Aires. He was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury successful January 2020 nether Executive Order 13876 for advancing Iran’s destabilizing objectives.

During his tenure, the IRGC expanded repression astatine location and supported violent proxy groups abroad, including Hezbollah.

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Demonstrators pain a poster depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally successful enactment of anti-government protests successful Iran, successful Holon, Israel Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.  (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Meanwhile, unrest wrong Iran continued into its nineteenth day. According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), astatine slightest 2,677 arrests person been recorded with 1,693 further cases nether investigation.

Another bureau besides reported expanded connection blackouts, including the shutdown of landlines successful immoderate areas.

"They are continuing arsenic before, but not astatine the gait earlier the slaughter of thousands and the arrests," Ali Safavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) told Fox News Digital, claiming arsenic galore arsenic 50,000 detainees.

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"There is inactive a full shutdown of the internet. Security forces are raiding residential areas and going to people’s rooftops. They started destroying outer dishes," Safavi said earlier describing clashes continuing done Wednesday nighttime into Thursday successful Tehran and Kermanshah, including gunfire.

NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi besides urged the planetary assemblage to enactment instantly to unafraid the merchandise of detainees and demanded an urgent planetary fact-finding ngo to Iran’s prisons.