Mon Sep 30, 2019 02:53PM [Updated: Mon Sep 30, 2019 03:16PM ]
Major General Hossein Salami, the chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, speaks to Press TV on September 30, 2019.
Major General Hossein Salami, the chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, speaks to Press TV on September 30, 2019.
The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Zionist regime is on its path toward collapse because of various weaknesses that are intrinsic to it and external regional forces that seek its annihilation.
Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on the sidelines of a national gathering of commanders and staff officials of the IRGC on Monday.
“The Zionist regime is moving toward collapse, because from the beginning it lacked the constituent elements of a creditable and official political system,” Salami said, adding that Israel has “neither a land of its own, nor population, nor even an established [political] system [recognized] in the world’s history.”
Salami then noted, “Internal problems and issues that are nagging this regime and its acts of mischief in the region have galvanized the Islamic world against it and caused armed groups and big armies to take position against it. [All these factors,] have naturally put it on the path to collapse.”
The Zionist regime has neither a "strong, deep-rooted and sustainable" economy, nor has its roots deep in any land, nor enjoys a coherent demographic geography, he said.
Salami emphasized that the Tel Aviv regime has many enemies in the region who "all want, in fact, its elimination from the political geography and therefore this will happen naturally."
Last month, Salami highlighted the growing power of the anti-Israel resistance front in the region, including Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, saying, “The enemy is well aware that any new war may expose the Zionist regime to full-scale threat and irreversible collapse.”
The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the US is not interested in a war with Iran since it knows any such confrontation would expose Israel to “full-scale threat.”
He said that the United States is not interested in waging war on Iran since it knows that any such confrontation would expose the Israeli regime to “full-scale threat.”
Meanwhile, addressing the gathering of the IRGC commanders earlier on Monday, Salami said the concepts of power and resistance differ from each other.
He said, "Many countries may have offensive power and means, but they are vulnerable in the face of any act of aggression, an example of which is the occupying and fake Zionist regime."
The IRGC chief commander emphasized that Iran has "both the offensive power and the power of resistance," saying that the Islamic Republic is currently capable of carrying out an offensive against the enemy at any extent and with any precision and density.
"During the first phase of the Islamic Revolution, we developed the capacity to destroy the fake Zionist regime, but during the second phase, this malicious regime should be eliminated from the world's geography and this important [issue] is not an ideal and a dream anymore, but an achievable goal," Salami pointed out.
Back in February, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issued a detailed statement dubbed "The Second Phase of Islamic Revolution" on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1979 revolution that toppled the US-backed Pahlavi regime.
Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a detailed statement dubbed "The Second Phase of Islamic Revolution" on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1979 uprising that toppled the US-backed Pahlavi regime.
In the statement, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Revolution guaranteed Iran’s security, stability, and territorial integrity, and stressed that Iran must not back down from its national and revolutionary values.
"Among all the nations suffering from oppression, few make an effort to launch a revolution; and among those nations that have risen and launched a revolution, few have been witnessed to have pursued it to the end, or moved beyond merely changing the government and safeguarded their revolutionary values," read the statement.
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Saudis sent messages to Iran's president: Govt. spokesman
Mon Sep 30, 2019 03:25PM [Updated: Mon Sep 30, 2019 03:30PM ]
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Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei speaks during a news conference in the capital Tehran on July 22, 2019. (Photo by AFP)
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei speaks during a news conference in the capital Tehran on July 22, 2019. (Photo by AFP)
The spokesman for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's administration has confirmed that Saudi leaders have been sending messages to Iran's president through a head of state, though refraining to give any details about the nature of those messages.
Ali Rabiei made the remarks during his weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday, when he was asked about reports denoting that the Saudi leadership has been sending messages to Iran's chief executive.
“Yes, this is true that they have sent messages to Mr. Rouhani through a head of one of countries,” Rabiei noted.
He added, “We must see signs of it [Saudi’s goodwill] without any ambiguity and the first sign of it is to stop the aggression against Yemen and put an end to the massacre of Yemenis.”
The Iranian official said Yemen’s retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia proved the “military might” of Yemeni forces, adding that Riyadh had earlier denied their power to do this, but Yemen’s attacks on Saudi oil refining facilities of Aramco proved their might.
Reiterating that Iran would welcome a “genuine” change in Saudis’ behavior, Rabiei noted that, “If they sincerely seek change in behavior, we welcome that.”
Asked about the prospect of Tehran-Riyadh ties, Rabiei said, “Iran’s message was clear from the very beginning; we were after an end to the Saudi aggression and massacre in Yemen and regarded ceasefire as a solution to the conflict.”
Iran still endorses the ceasefire as the solution to the Yemeni conflict and will do its utmost to contribute to this end, he stressed.
Yemeni armed forces announced on Saturday that three Saudi military brigades were completely destroyed after they mounted a large-scale military offensive in the kingdom’s southern border region of Najran.
Yemeni Armed Forces release the footage of “Victory from God Almighty” offensive in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran.
Speaking at a press conference in the capital Sana’a, the spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, termed the operation, dubbed Victory from God Almighty, as the biggest-ever since Saudi Arabia and some of its allies embarked on an atrocious military campaign on Yemen more than four years ago.
The military official said Yemeni forces had killed some 200 Saudi-backed mercenaries and took 2,000 others prisoner in the offensive.
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement also said in a statement that the operation inflicted dramatic losses – both in terms of military hardware and personnel – upon the enemy.
Saudi Arabia’s failure to defend itself against recent retaliatory attacks by Yemeni forces is proof that the Saudi military is not competent and is only a “fraud,” says an American political analyst.
The operation came less than two weeks after Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and their allies in the Yemeni army deployed as many as 10 drones to bomb the Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities run by the Saudi state-owned oil company, Aramco.
The unprecedented attack knocked out more than half of the Saudi crude output, or five percent of global supply, prompting Saudi and US officials to claim without any evidence that it probably originated from Iraq or Iran.
Yemen has rejected claims that Iran and Iraq might have played a role in the attack.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah.
Amnesty International says precision-guided bombs made by the United States have been used in Saudi-led deadly airstrikes against civilians in Yemen.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 91,000 lives over the past four and a half years.
The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
