Alwaght- The Saudi regime is incapable of posing a threat to Iran as the Islamic Republic has the upper hand in different spheres, a senior Iranian military official has said.
“The elements of national power of the Islamic Republic are superior to the elements of national power of Saudi Arabia and the country does not have the potential to pose a threat against Iran,” Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, said at a military gathering in Tehran on Tuesday.
The Iranian commander pointed to the Saudi aggression on Yemen, which is aimed to support Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government and crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and noted, “If the Saudi military might was superior, they could have defeated the Ansarullah movement in Yemen, but they have been defeated in three years of unequal war in Yemen.”
Rahim Safavi argued that military equipment is not the only determining factor in military confrontations, noting that those who pose threat to Iran are extremely vulnerable, as it was the case for former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussain in its eight-year war against Iran during the 1980s.
Saudi officials have repeatedly accused the Islamic Republic of inciting violence across the region and even pointed to the possibility of engaging in military confrontation against the country. Iran has repeatedly dismissed the allegations.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on March 29, bin Salman warned that Saudi Arabia may engage in a war against Iran in the future if tougher international sanctions are not imposed against the Islamic Republic.
