Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff and the Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters have vowed to defend the Islamic Republic’s national interests, Iranian people’s rights and territorial integrity, saying the armed forces will make the United States, ‘Israel’ and their allies “taste the bitter flavor of further defeats.”
In a statement marking Sacred Defense Week, the Armed Forces General Staff and the Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said September 22, which marks the beginning of the annual commemoration of the 1980–1988 war imposed on Iran by Iraq’s Ba’athist regime, represents a major chapter in the history of the Islamic Revolution.
The statement said the Iranian people, relying on their faith and unity, had resisted the military aggression of the former Iraqi regime as well as political, security and economic pressure from the Eastern and Western superpowers.
⚡️⭕️ Iran: General Staff and Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters say armed forces have changed security equations, forced U.S. and Israel to bow, and will make aggressors taste bitterness of defeat; cite control of Strait of Hormuz under Iranian arrangements. (Al Mayadeen Breaking)
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It said Iran had “upended conventional calculations in the world’s military and strategic arena” and imposed an “irreparable defeat” on global powers and their allies without surrendering “even a single inch” of Iranian territory.
The statement further noted that Iran’s Armed Forces have, in the current circumstances, inflicted heavy damage on the military and security infrastructure and strategic interests of the United States and Israel in West Asia.
“These measures have changed the security equations in favor of the Muslim community and the Iranian people,” the statement said, citing Iran’s management of the Strait of Hormuz through “Iranian arrangements,” the weakening of the US military’s “hollow” image, and the defeat of the Israeli military.
The statement said the Iranian people would continue to rely on national capabilities and “creative capacities” to confront the enemy’s combined attacks, particularly economic, cognitive, and media warfare.
It added that Iran would impose another defeat on its enemies following heavy blows inflicted on the US-Israeli camp.
Source: Agencies