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Salami: Trump turned the US military into an aging army (AFP)
The commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Hossein Salami, confirmed last night in an interview with Iranian television that “the United States cannot impose a war on Iran,” commenting on recent threats by US President Donald Trump to launch a attack him if US interests are targeted.
In response to Trump’s threat to Iran to respond “a thousand times more powerful” should it carry out an attack on the United States, Salami said that “the president of the United States lacks in-depth and truthful information and knowledge about the power military, so it is natural that he exaggerates the numbers. ”
Salami said the US president “turned the US military into an obsolete military that cannot launch a major war against Iran.”
The commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said: “American society is psychologically unprepared to accept great losses in war, and if the United States wants to wage war against us, it will fight in the region, and when its forces are established in the region, they will be monitored by us everywhere. ” Salami promised to “occupy all US bases in the region” in the event of any war against Iran.
Salami’s remarks came after other statements this Saturday afternoon in which he denied his country’s plans to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, in response to the assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, in an American airstrike near the Baghdad airport earlier this year.
Salami issued threats against the United States of America, saying: “The response to this assassination is inevitable, firm and serious.”
Iran had attacked Ain Al-Assad’s base in Iraq, during which US soldiers were injured by missile strikes, in response to Soleimani’s assassination, but at the time confirmed that this response was “preliminary.”
While Salami stressed that his country would target “everyone who was directly or indirectly involved” in Soleimani’s assassination, he addressed the US President and said: “Mr. Trump, do not doubt our revenge, and it will be firm and serious. “.
And last Tuesday, the US president commented, in a tweet via Twitter, on the American Politico website report on Tehran’s plans to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, in revenge for Soleimani’s murder, saying that “Any attack by Iran is against the United States, regardless of its form. He will respond a thousand times stronger. “
Furthermore, the head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, Kamal Kharazi, in response to a question on whether the United States wanted to attack Iran under the pretext of re-enforcing canceled UN resolutions, stated that “Iran, according to the article 51 of the United Nations Charter, you have the right to defend yourself. ” , Stressing that it “would respond immediately and decisively to any aggressive US aggression.”
Kharrazi said, as reported by the “ISNA” agency, that his country “will not give up its rights, and this has been proven in practice”, considering that Washington’s speech on the reimposition of UN sanctions is “null allegations and meaningless. ” Kharazi clarified that the United States withdrew from the nuclear deal, stating that after that it has no right to use the “dispute settlement” mechanism.
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