IRGC Commander:

Iran Capable of Giving Crushing Response to Different Threats

Rasa - Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami underlined Iran's capability to swiftly and crushingly respond to different types of threats by enemies.

News ID: 430796

Date: 05 July 2017 - 23:44

RNA - "We enjoy the necessary preparedness to give a proper and decisive response to all the wide range of threats at any level and with any intensity," General Salami said, addressing a ceremony in the Western city of Shiraz on Wednesday.

He referred to Iran's last month missile attacks against the ISIL terrorists' bases in Syria, and said the Iranian nation and the world witnessed the power of the country's Armed Forces.

In relevant remarks last month, Chief of Staff of Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri underlined his country's high missile power one day after the IRGC launched missile strikes against the ISIL bases 700km away in Syria.

"Iran is among the world's big powers in the missile field," General Baqeri said, addressing a meeting in Tehran on June 19.

He stressed the arrogant powers' weakness in confrontation with Iran, and said, "They don’t have the capability to engage in clashes with us for now and of course, we don’t intend to involve in clashes with them but we are in permanent rivalry with them in different fields, including the missile sector."

The IRGC launched 6 missile strikes at ISIL centers in Syria's Deir Ezzur in retaliation for the June 7 twin terrorist attacks in Tehran which killed 18 people, it said in a statement issued on June 18, adding that the mid-range ballistic missiles were fired from bases in Western Iran and flew through Iraq's airspace before hitting the targets in Syria.

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