By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

 

Kudos to Iranian scientists, engineers, technicians, inventors, and experts, including ulema, statesmen, politicians, and the dedicated masses, for turning the Islamic Republic into a formidable fortress equipped with state-of-the art means of defence that not only protect the country from attackers but penetrate with shattering effect the so-called iron domes of the enemies.

If Iran had not learned valuable lessons from the 8-year US-imposed war of the 1980s by reducing its dependence on weapons imports and launching its own arms manufacturing factories, the nation would have long been exposed to the evil designs of aggressors and perhaps lost its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Saturday’s cowardly attempt by the illegal Zionist entity for an aerial attack on Iran with the most sophisticated US aircraft, missiles, and logistic support, was repulsed with only minor damage at certain sites that were quickly repaired.

Iran now reserves the right to retaliate with greater strength, far exceeding the October First avenging with 180 missiles, of the dastardly assassination in Tehran of Hamas leader, Ismael Haniyeh, by agents of the Zionist entity, or the April shower of some 300 drones and projectiles as “True Promise” vengeance for Israel’s murder of Iranian advisors in Damascus.

This is ample proof of the power and precision of Iranian manufactured armaments that are superior to the offensive and defensive US-European supplied weaponry of usurper Israel.

No wonder, Iranian arms are in great demand and effectively used by the various members of the Axis of Resistance to shatter the so-called iron domes of the Zionist entity and the American-supplied ‘Patriot’ and ‘Thad’ air defence systems.

In view of these undeniable facts, it is unfortunate of most of our Muslim Arab neighbours to squander their wealth by recycling billions of petrodollars to the US and Europe for purchase of 2nd or 3rd grade and even obsolete weapons on the assumption of protection against aggression.

The weapons they have stocked in their arsenals are no match for Israeli weapons or the superior quality aircraft, missiles, and bombs supplied to the Zionist entity the US and West European regimes for the genocide in Gaza, for aerial attacks on Syria, and for the killing of the people of Lebanon.

This explains the ominous silence of the unrepresentative Arab regimes towards the mass massacre of the Palestinian people, whose liberation organizations have at least some means of defence modelled on Iranian designs to frustrate the Zionist entity and prevent the fall of the tiny Gaza Strip to the Israeli soldiers despite more than a year of warfare.