TEHRAN - Reportedly, the U.S. is sending ground troops to the Persian Gulf to take control of Iran’s Kharg Island which accounts for about 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports to force Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Several points need to be clarified in this regard.

Concurrent with the dispatch of ground troops to the region, U.S. President Donald Trump claims that constructive talks are underway with Iran to end the war that he started against Iran along with Israel on Feb. 28.  However, if talks are underway, sending troops to the region is counterproductive and shows that the U.S. has vicious motives, like the time that it was negotiating with Iran but made a sudden and unprovocative attack against Iran in coordination with Israel.

Also, it is clear to the entire world that Iran does not just allow oil tankers owned by the U.S. and those countries that support the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran to pass through the strategic waterway. 

Furthermore, in a ground battle Iran will surely defeat the opponents because it has full knowledge of its own geography and knows how to deal devasting blows to the possible invaders from different angles. Iran can target invading troops by missiles from mountains across the Persian Gulf. Therefore, deploying troops on Iranian islands, including Kharg, is deadly for the U.S. 
There are many reasons to prove that a ground attack will not succeed and the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened to foes. 

It is true that the United States has aerial superiority, but if the battle takes place on the ground, Iran will surely get the upper hand.

According to multiple people familiar with U.S. intelligence, Iran has been laying traps and moving additional military personnel and air defenses to Kharg Island in recent weeks in preparation for a possible U.S. operation, CNN has reported. 

U.S. officials and military experts have also said there would be significant risks involved in such a ground operation, including a large number of U.S. casualties.

As Iran has been developing highly advanced ballistic missiles since Iraq’s invasion of Iran in the 1980s, it has also trained professional ground troops, including military parachuters and commandos, in large numbers who will overcome invaders.

The same way that important highlights in Tel Aviv and Haifa are being targeted by Iran’s different types of hypersonic ballistic missiles and the evil minds of Israeli officials have been shattered, unfortunately the American troops will also be sent home in coffins just for the sake of extremists in Israel.

Ground battle is something that Iran has uncontested superiority. In addition to eight years of experience in countering Iraqi invaders during Saddam Hussein’s rule of Iraq, Iran has been practicing all types of war, particularly battle on the ground, for about four decades. By capitalizing on the Iraqi invasion of Iran and frequent threats of military attacks against Iran by the United States and Israel, Iranian armed forces have prepared themselves for such days.

Without exaggeration, it appears that the anticipated day has arrived. If any part of Iranian territory, including islands, is attacked by American forces, Iranian troops will respond with overwhelming force.

It is greatly wished that the U.S. would think twice before it decides to possibly send its troops to harm’s way. In that situation, just highly trained troops will not be engaged in war with invaders, but even trained volunteers, whose numbers exceeded tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands, would join regular service members to take avenge of the invaders. Just like what happened during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran. During the Saddam Army’s invasion of Iran, tens of thousands of volunteers joined armed forces and made Saddam Hussein who intended to annex the oil rich parts of Iran to beg for peace.

At that time, Iran’s population was less than 40 million. But now Iran’s population is more than 90 million. Today, many of the youth are wholeheartedly willing to get involved in combat operations against U.S. troops because of decades of Washington’s bellicose behavior toward Iran, starting from giving information about the location of Iranian troops to Saddam Husein’s army through satellite images, the downing an Iranian passenger airliner over the Persian Gulf in 1988 and awarding Legion of Merit to Rogers III who ordered the attack, decades of crippling economic sanctions and bans on Iranian oil exports which have cost Iran about three-to-four trillion dollars, the bombardment of Iran’s key nuclear sites in June 2025, to the assassination of Iran’s spiritual and political leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top military commanders.

Add to these cruel moves, the assassination of Iran’s anti-terror legendary commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020; aiding and abetting Israel in its sudden war against Iran in June 2025 during which several top Iranian generals and nuclear scientists were martyred and more than 1000 people, mostly civilians, were butchered. Iranians are well aware that Israel did not dare to attack Iran without the full support of the U.S. in 2025. They are keeping this anger in their heart and mind as the current joint war on has inflamed the public opinion.

American officials, particularly those in the first and second Trump administrations, have angered Iranians in every possible way. That Iranians are angry of the extremist American officials is not something that can be covered up. They are filled with anger the the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in the middle of talks both in June 2025 and Feb. 2026. They firmly believe that the Trump administration misused Iran’s goodwill in the nuclear talks. Simply, they believed the U.S. cheated Iran twice.

Given all these bitter facts and memories, Iranians are ready to sacrifice their lives to avenge the U.S. if it deploys troops on the Iranian soil, whether on the islands or elsewhere. Even many of those Iranian who poured into the streets in large numbers on January 8 and 9 to protest economic problems are ready to join military forces if U.S. troops enter the Iranian soil.

Apolitical people are feeling uncomfortable as they are hearing that the U.S. is preparing to send thousands more troops for possible ground offensive against Iran. Some say a ground invasion of the Iranian islands may prompt the United Arab Emirates, who have been repeatedly making ownership claims over the Iranian islands of Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Mussa in the Persian Gulf, to misuse the situation and join American troops. 

Some analysts even go further and say Saudi Arabia may also provoke some Arab population in southwestern province of Khuzestan to seek separation from Iran.

In sum, now one month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran in which that the Trump administration has failed to defeat the Islamic Republic and the U.S. is being caught in a quagmire, the ground attack will make the U.S. to sink deeper.

Senior analysts believe that ground invasion will subject U.S. troops to great danger and make the war longer and longer. They also say troops will be targeted by missiles and drones.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a recent interview, has said, “We are waiting for American troops”.  Mohsen Rezaei, the commander of the IRGC during Iraq’s war against Iran, has also said Iran is “waiting” for American troops. 

“If they failed to achieve results using their air force — their primary capability — what do they expect from a ground assault? Do American troops want to die for Israel? … We are waiting,” Rezaei wrote on X on March 26.