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News ID: 64328
Publish Date : 17 March 2019 - 21:07
IRGC Chief General Jafari:

All of Zionist Regime Within Reach of Hezbollah Missiles

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- All of the occupying regime of Israel is within range of Hezbollah’s missiles, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Ali Jafari said in an interview published Sunday.
"The current status quo and the current capabilities of the resistance front of the Islamic Revolution are all the unique accomplishments of the Islamic Revolution which cannot be verbally described and they rather should be sensed,” he said in an interview with the Persian-language Soroush Magazine.
"While they once dreamed of their territorial expansion from the Nile River to the Euphrates River, and they were after realizing this wish in the past 50 years, today you can see that they have been unable to expand their land even for an inch; they even have lost some of the territories they had already occupied and are under full siege from all around their borders,” he continued.
The occupying regime of Israel and Hezbollah last fought a war in 2006. Hezbollah has now hundreds of thousands of short-range rockets and several thousand more missiles that can reach deep into Occupied Palestine.  
"To put it in a nutshell, we can say that the enemy has not been successful in the region and all its plots and operations have ended up with nothing but failure for them and success for the Islamic Revolution and the Resistance Front,” Jafari said.
On Sunday, Iran’s navy said it had deployed its 61st flotilla to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
"The naval group is on a mission to provide security for the routes used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) in the area of the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait,” commander of the navy's Southern Fleet Rear Admiral Afshin Tashak said.
The flotilla includes the Bayandor destroyer, the Bushehr logistic warship and the Lavan warship.
The deployment of the fleet comes two weeks after Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Israel’s navy could stop Iranian oil shipments.
The deployment also comes less than a month after a large-scale naval exercise in the Persian Gulf and strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Tashak said, "The naval group is on a mission to provide security for the routes used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) in the area of the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.”
Iran has been working to upgrade its navy, with new vessels and submarines introduced to bolster the country’s fleet and recently announced that it had commissioned its first domestically developed submarine capable of firing cruise missiles.
Over the past decade, Iran’s naval groups have escorted 6,000 oil tankers in international waters, Tashak said.
The missions, he added, were undertaken in line with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s description of the navy as a strategic force which should expand its operating range and confront piracy.