IRGC Chief General Jafari:

Hostile Saudi Moves Will Not Go Unanswered

Date: 16 November 2018 - 21:22

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has said the United States is on the verge of collapse and the "total annihilation of this evil power” will come soon.
"The United States is a regime formed on the basis of capitalism, racial discrimination and hegemonism,” Major General Muhammad Ali Jafari told an event Qazvin Thursday.
He said Western and American officials have admitted "defeat” in their opposition to Iran, and the "might and dignity” of the U.S. have suffered.
Jafari also said that the U.S. is "much weaker” as a world power than it was four decades ago, when the Islamic Revolution succeeded in toppling the Western-backed regime in Tehran.
Trump has taken a far more confrontational approach toward Iran after his predecessor Barack Obama tried to improve relations with the Middle Eastern nation.
Jafari also said the Saudi regime's empty talk against Iran will not go unanswered, adding Tehran's response will be "covert but painful". Riyadh’s rants are out of Riyadh's anger at the Islamic Republic's gains in the region, he added.
"Iran's numerous successes in the region -- especially in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon -- has thrown Al Saud into intense confusion, and it is seeking to give Iran a response with such passive moves," said Jafari.
Iran's regional role, he added, irks Riyadh's rulers as it has led to "the awakening of nations in the region" and boosted the resistance movement.
The Islamic Republic's "responses to this regime are not mainly reflected in media or publicized and remain covert and hidden, but they are painful for them."
Jafari also highlighted the peace talks underway on the Syria situation and said "the Syrian government has asked Iran to station units of peacekeepers in Idlib and northwest of Aleppo Province".
Meanwhile, the Iranian Army chief hailed the nation for braving numerous enemy threats on its path of progress, saying that while the era of the U.S. dominance in the West Asia has come to an end, Iran has attained a determining position.
Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi made the remarks on Thursday in a ceremony to mark the seventh martyrdom anniversary of Major General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, known as the father of Iran’s missile program.
"Today, we can make the case that the era of America’s dominance and hegemony in West Asian is over, while the era has begun for Iran as the frontrunner,” Mousavi said.
Mousavi enumerated a set of political, economic and security threats posed by the enemies to Iran and the resistance front in the region, among them the emergence of the Daesh terror in Iraq and Syria, U.S. and Saudi crimes in Yemen as well as an Iranophobia media campaign coupled with economic sanctions and political pressure.
"Despite the diversity of the threats…dear Iran is moving forward on the path of progress at a fast pace and stands today in a determining position in the region,” he said.
The Army chief further referred to the occupying regime of Israel’s multiple defeats in the wars it has waged over the past years, including the 33-day offensive against Lebanon in 2006 and the collapse of the terrorist groups it supports.
"The illegitimate Zionist regime is frustrated with the ineffectiveness of the cotton dome,” Mousavi said, referring to Israel’s so-called Iron Dome missile system, which has repeatedly come under criticism for failing to intercept the retaliatory rockets fired at the occupied territories during the regime’s wars.
The Israeli entity has been resorting to warmongering in an attempt to consolidate its position, he said.
Mousavi also referred to the Zionist regime’s support for terror groups in Syria, saying such evil policies are meant to reduce the pace of the regime’s downfall.