Alwaght- A senior Iranian military commander says the Islamic Republic will continue to produce and develop more missiles to deter enemies of the Islamic Republic.
“Our missiles that have become more precise and more destructive will be multiplied more than before,” Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said on Tuesday in a meeting with IRGC commanders.
“Before being ready for political and diplomatic options, we have become ready for [facing] the military option,” he added.
The IRGC commander noted that noting that Iran would never “welcome” any war. He however pointed out that if the time comes for a military confrontation, it will be regarded as an opportunity like the Iraqi imposed war in the 1980s, reiterating that, like in the past, the US will not be able “to do a damn thing”.
He added that the Islamic Republic has shaped the structure of its military power proportionate to possible military threats posed by the US and its allies.
“For years, we have been building power on the presumption of a widespread war with the US and its allies, and have developed all our capacities and capabilities for decisive victories over such enemies” Major General Jafari said. “Before political and diplomatic options, we have gotten prepared for a military option,” he underlined.
The top general also highlighted the extensive plans the IRGC has prepared to show appropriate reaction to the “stupid” conducts by the Arab allies of the US.
“Regimes like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and their peers are symbols of modern political underdevelopment, and the IRGC… has made preparations for response to their rudeness and stupid behavior, which stems from (their) reliance on the US power,” General Jafari pointed out.
He further deplored certain Arab states for their disgraceful support for Israel as well as the killing of innocent people in Yemen and Palestine, noting that Arab nations will soon seek revenge.
Major General Jafari pointed out that Islamic Republic will continue to support the Syrian government in its fight against terrorists, warning that Iran will never allow the disintegration of any Muslim state.
“We will continue to support the survival of the Syrian government [in its fight against terrorist groups] and its sovereignty and territorial integrity and will never allow any partitioning of any of Muslim territories,” he said.
“We view disintegration as a British-American-Zionist strategy, therefore we will never allow any weakening of Muslim nations,” he added.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps chief warned that the Iran nuclear deal with world powers was not a "model" and criticized "Westernized groups" in the Islamic republic.
If the nuclear accord, which came into force in January, is "portrayed as a model, that is a sign of narrow mindedness and self-humiliation", General Jafari, said
He said that those in Iran who espoused the deal as the right path for an internal political deal were "involuntarily taking the road to counter-revolution and want to humiliate our great people".
Jafari said "political ideas that contradict the Islamic revolution will not last... even if at a certain moment they might take control of the government and parliament".
He said "the new Westernized trend in Iran is formed by American infiltration elements" that would be defeated by the Guards and "revolutionary forces within the country".
Meanwhile, the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has blasted US President Barack Obama for his remarks against Tehran's implementation of the nuclear deal, and said he is raising excessive demands.
"We studied the details of the nuclear agreement and didn’t see anything but its text and don’t have any information about its spirit," Firouzabadi said, addressing senior military commanders and officials in Tehran on Tuesday. He was reacting to US president Barack Obama’s call on Tehran to work on the spirit of the July nuclear deal.
"Therefore, the US arrogant expectations and excessive demands are ungrounded and unacceptable and no one in the Islamic Republic of Iran cares about them," he added.
In relevant remarks on Tuesday, Iranian Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said after the implementation of the nuclear deal, the US wrongly imagined that Iran would modify all its policies. "But we have specified policies in our country and the government has just been allowed to obviate ambiguities with regard to the nuclear issues," he added.
Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for what he called as undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.
