RNA - "Iran has been able to push the region towards tranquility and security; there will be no sustainable security and peace in the region without the Islamic Republic of Iran," General Rahim Safavi said, addressing a forum in Tehran on Saturday.
He stressed that Iran is after sustainable security in the region, adding, "The Americans will be forced to leave West Asia region. They will be forced to withdraw from East Euphrates in Syria as well as Afghanistan and Iraq."
According to Fars News Agency, General Rahim Safavi said that Iran has taught the regional states and nations that security can be established in the Persian Gulf and West Asia through regional cooperation and without the presence of Americans.
In relevant remarks in May, General Rahim Safavi underlined that the US is forced to pull out military forces from West Asia after it failed to establish a footprint in the region.
"The Americans are forced to withdraw from West Asia because they are an oppressive government and cannot establish security in the region," General Rahim Safavi said.
"Iran has paid a high cost to establish security in West Asia in pursuit of peace in the region but the Americans, the British and the Zionists are considered as the main source of insecurity in the region and of course, most of their attempts are focused on selling weapons and looting the resources of the regional states," he added.
Rahim Safavi referred to the US hostile measures against Iran, and said Washington and its allies have sustained a defeat from Iran, Russia and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group in Syria and their Greater Middle-East Plan has fallen flat, and Iran has been able to thwart their plots in the region.
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