In response to the addition of Iran's Revolutionary Guards to the U.S.'s list of terror organizations, guards commander Yahyah Rahim Safavi said in a speech in Esfahan, "America will in future receive heavier blows than the Revolutionary Guards... We will not be silent in the face of America's pressure [on us]; rather, we will use its own means of pressure against it."
He added that the Persian Gulf would become a "hell" for the U.S. were it to attack Iran.
Source: Kayhan, Iran, August 18, 2007; Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, August 20, 2007
