RNA - "The country will never tolerate insults and threats, and will respond to enemy's threat with threat," Dehqan said.
He reiterated that Iran's power derived from eight years of sacred defense, has made the world powers to look at Iran with respect.
In relevant remarks in early May, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari that his forces are always prepared to give a crushing response to the slightest aggression by the US army.
"We always consider the world arrogance (the US and its allies) as a threat and are ready to confront it," Sayyari said, addressing a ceremony in Tehran.
He underlined Iran's naval power and its deployment in the international waters, and said, "Our flotilla of warships will sail around Africa and sail towards the Atlantic Ocean in the near future."
Sayyari also said that the Iranian fleets of warships have rescued at least 25 foreign and tens of Iranian vessels from pirates' attacks in international waters.
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