RNA - He made the remarks at Tehran-based Holy Defense Museum on Saturday in a ceremony for unveiling a book related to Iran-Iraq war.
"According to documents found in the US embassy in Tehran, from the 1953 Coup to the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979 all the affairs of Iran were in hand of the United States," he highlighted.
"In the past 40 years, the US has staged all-out effort to fight Iran but they have conceded a defeat and are forced to retreat from the western Asian region," Safavi added.
He went on to say that with the formation of the Resistance Axis and the guidance of Islamic Revolution Leader and late Imam Khomeini, nations take control of their own fate.
After the fall of both the last Iranian king and the establishment of monarchy in Iran in 1979, the US government tried different scenarios including a direct military attack, coup, indirect military attack via supporting former Iraqi dictator Saddam, funding anti-Iran terrorist groups, and giving home to anti-Iran terrorists.
Earlier on October 10, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Gholamhossein Dehqani blasted the US for allowing the terrorists to live and operate in the country freely and without any legal prosecution.
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