{"id":11008,"date":"2026-04-20T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/iran-irgc-commander-strong-slap-response-us-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:16:16","slug":"iran-irgc-commander-strong-slap-response-us-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/iran-irgc-commander-strong-slap-response-us-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s IRGC Aerospace Commander Vows &#8216;Strong Slap&#8217; in Response to US Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seyyed Majid Mousavi, commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, announced that any threat against the country will be met with a &#8220;strong and decisive slap.&#8221; These remarks come amid reports indicating the end of the ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on the social media platform X, Mousavi wrote: &#8220;Under the orders of our leader, we do not trust negotiations with you, but we have faith in the power of God, our people, and our fighters.&#8221; He also emphasized that Iran has, in his words, &#8220;left behind the era of weakness and surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The senior Iranian military commander further stated, &#8220;Wherever you are and whenever we want, we will respond with power.&#8221; His comments come at a time when tensions between Iran and the United States have once again become the center of international attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s IRGC aerospace commander warns the US of a &#8216;strong slap&#8217; in response to threats amid rising tensions after ceasefire ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}