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Iran Not to Tolerate US Insults

Rasa - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan blasted his US counterpart James Mattis for his anti-Iran remarks, stressing that the nation will not bear the American officials' insults.

News ID: 430971

Date: 12 July 2017 - 22:47

RNA - "Whenever the Americans have intended to make any type action against us or hire proxies to this end, our nation has proved that it makes them regret their deeds," General Dehqan told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday.

"The Iranian nation doesn’t tolerate any humiliation, insult or threats by any powers," he underlined.

General Dehqan had also on Tuesday censured Mattis for making hostile remarks, cautioning him to stay away from Iran.

"The US secretary of defense and the ruling system had better think of resolving their internal issues and study the root causes that will most possibly cause the current US administration to collapse in a not so far future and will make the country's political system face a lot of serious challenges," General Dehqan said.

He added that such remarks are the result of the US arrogant manner and ignoring other nations.

In recent comments, Mattis claimed that regime change will be necessary before the US and Iran can have substantially positive relations.

“Until the Iranian people can get rid of this theocracy, these guys who think they can tell the people even which candidates they get a choice of. It’s going to be very, very difficult,” Mattis said.

Improving relations with Iran will be particularly difficult, according to Mattis. He claimed that any potential rapprochement would be difficult because Iran is not really a democracy.

Today, he said everyone in the Middle East, from Tel Aviv to Cairo, has told him Iran continues to be a major problem. He claimed that the country’s influence has helped keep Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, in power, has escalated the conflict in Yemen by supplying ballistic missiles to Houthi rebels and continues to murder its own people.

“Iran is certainly the most destabilizing influence in the Middle East,” Mattis told the Mercer Island High School Islander.

He gave credit again to Hillary Clinton effectively using economic sanctions, forcing the Iranian regime to the negotiating table.

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