IRGC Chief Sees ‘Sign of Victory’

Date: 06 October 2019 - 21:30

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hussein Salami said on Sunday Iran is advancing while the enemy is retreating from its position.
"The enemy is retreating and leaving the battlefield while the Islamic Revolution is marching forward and this is a sign of victory,” Salami said at a conference on the role of media in Tehran.
"Today, they (Americans) admit that they have reached the point where the more they advance, the more they go downwards. A power’s lack of strategy is the beginning of its gradual death and this is what has happened in the U.S.”
General Salami also touched on the enemy’s propaganda modus operandi which spews falsehood, saying Iran’s media outlets shoulder a heavy burden in giving a voice to the oppressed nations.
"The enemy’s news network is similar to a spider web; it has a complicated appearance but at the same time it’s very flimsy,” Salami said.
Hailing Iran’s journalists, the IRGC chief said it is not important that the enemy holds a monopoly on most aspects of news dissemination, because "you discredit the enemy’s media outlets by showing the truth.”
"The enemies tell lies and engaged in oppression, but whoever other than you conveys to the world the voices of the oppressed Palestinian and Yemeni children from beneath rubbles?" Salami said.
"The enemies tell lies and commit oppression, but whoever other than you would transmit to the world the voices of the oppressed Palestinian and Yemeni children from beneath the rubbles?" Salami told representatives of the Iranian media.
The commander said the Iranian media’s philosophy is "defending the oppressed and putting ourselves in harm’s way to save the lives of others.”
"This philosophy will definitely emerge victorious,” he said,
The event featured honoring Press TV news anchor Marzieh Hashemi, who was jailed in the U.S. without charge for two weeks in January and later freed amid a public outcry.
Abdol-Ali Ali-Asgari, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), said the Islamic Republic has turned into a great and invincible power. He said the enemy's policies in the region have reached a deadlock and the U.S. is in decline.
Tensions have increased between Iran and the U.S. in recent months amid a spate of suspicious attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and Yemen’s retaliatory operations against Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. and its allies have used their propaganda arms to mainly blame the attacks on Iran which has sternly warned of "false flag” operations in order to produce a trigger for likely confrontations.
Western media outlets have been adamant to link the September 14 missile and drone attack on Saudi oil facilities to Iran without questioning the veracity of the claim made by their governments.
Washington was the first country to immediately point the finger at Iran when the attack took place. Many analysts believe the U.S. is alarmed by the specter of losing credibility in the eyes of Saudi rulers who might be waking up to the virtual uselessness of expensive American weapons. Hence, blaming Iran is in fact a red herring to conceal the fiasco.