TEHRAN -- An official at the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters on Tuesday touched on Iran’s “strategic upper hand” in the face of Israeli threats, saying Iranian Armed Forces are capable of inflicting “irreparable” costs on the enemy.
Speaking to a group of academic elites, the unnamed official said the occupying regime of Israel, backed by the United States and some European countries, remains the number one source of threat and insecurity in the West Asian region, but Iran has devised plans to thwart it.
“Our full hand in terms of the existence of numerous intelligence and operational scenarios about the sensitive centers and strategic systems as well as American resources related to this evil regime has changed our position from ambiguity and lack of information to high transparency and accessibility. This means we have a strategic upper hand in this equation,” the official said.
“At present, the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are able to impose exorbitant and irreparable costs on the enemy,” the official added.
The official said most of the financial and human costs and numerous failures suffered by the U.S. in the region, especially over the past two decades, are the result of Washington’s submission to Israeli demands and strategies.
“The relations between the Zionist regime and the U.S. will soon turn into a lose-lose situation, and we will show the characteristics and components of this incidence in due time,” he added.
In an opinion piece published in Haaretz’s Hebrew site, former

prime minister Ehud Olmert said the occupying regime of Israel does not have conventional military capabilities that enable it to strike and permanently eliminate the Iranian nuclear project, as it did in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007.
Olmert said the policy adopted by former Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past few years and the repeated warnings that Iran was on the verge of becoming a “nuclear power” are incorrect, because “intensive and accelerated uranium enrichment does not necessarily turn Iran to being on the verge of becoming a nuclear state”.
Olmert also criticized what he called the approach of creating unnecessary fear and panic about Iran.
Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations on Monday blasted the Israeli prime minister’s address to the UN General Assembly, which took the occupying regime’s smear campaign against the Islamic Republic to new heights.
“Iranphobia runs rampant at UN. The Israeli regime PM’s speech was full of lies on Iran,” Majid Takht Ravanchi tweeted.
The remarks came after Naftali Bennett used his first speech to the world body, to solely try to tarnish Iran.
He alleged that Iran’s nuclear energy program had crossed all “red lines,” adding that the country sought to control the Middle East region under a “nuclear umbrella.”
Takht Ravanchi said the Zionist regime “is in no position to discuss our peaceful program when it has hundreds of nuclear warheads.”
Despite its constant denial, Tel Aviv has been running a notorious and highly secretive nuclear weapons program—the only one in the region—that has provided it with at least 200 non-conventional warheads.
Thanks to unwavering support by the United States, its biggest and oldest ally, the occupying regime has however refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and blocked inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Throughout the years, the occupying regime has also assassinated at least seven Iranian nuclear scientists, and tried to interfere with the Islamic Republic’s nuclear work through various ways. Iran’s nuclear facilities have come under at least three sabotage operations over the past year, in which the occupying regime is the prime suspect.