TEHRAN – The enemies of the Islamic Republic are facing a lose-lose situation with a sense of
“strategic frustration”, head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hussein Salami said Wednesday.
He said the Islamic Revolution has handled confrontation with the enemies in such a way that they are currently stuck in a lose-lose condition.
“The enemy will have to pay a cost if it chooses to stay and will feel the disgrace of escape if it runs away,” the commander added.
General Salami said the enemies of Iran have a sense of strategic frustration and suffer from political dementia.
Pointing to the failure of the enemy’s plot to impose an economic blockade on Iran, the IRGC commander said the Islamic Republic has also defeated the enemy’s psychological warfare.
He went on to say that the U.S. has suffered a defeat even in employing tactics.
The world’s most modern army had to withdraw from Afghanistan in humiliation and left most of its weapons behind, the commander said about the hasty pullout of American troops from Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, General Salami said Iran has “built power” to confront the United States.
“We have built power to defeat the U.S. When we build power for man’s largest military empire, i.e. the U.S., small powers like the Zionist regime are no longer counted in our equations,” Gen. Hussein Salami said.
He said Iran no longer sees the U.S. as a threat after it withdrew forces from the region, in an apparent reference to the recent chaotic pullout of American forces from Afghanistan.
“We witness a failed, fleeing and depressed U.S.,” he said.
Salami also asserted that Iran has managed to weather U.S. sanctions. “Inside our own country, despite all natural or imposed pressures, the Iranian nation has been engaged in resistance,” he said.