The Revolutionary Guard's political deputy said, “Americans are in a state of turmoil and anger, and because of their desperation, they have done whatever they can to break the Iranian nation’s 40-year-old resistance.”
The Revolutionary Guard's deputy political chief and the head of the Iranian army warned that the United States would not make good on its threats to attack their country, as President Donald Trump's administration was accused of using similar tactics in the lead-up to the Iraq War to pave the way toward conflict with the Islamic Republic.
That same day, Iranian Army commander Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari issued a statement of his own, arguing that"the armed forces are ready, awake and vigilant and are monitoring the developments, none of our enemies dares to attack the dear Islamic homeland." Trump and his officials have accused Iran of using unfrozen funds to develop ballistic missile technology and to support militant groups abroad, especially via the elite Revolutionary Guards, which the State Department declared a terrorist organization last month in an unprecedented step. Iran's Supreme National Security Council responded by brushing the Pentagon's Central Command with a similar label.
In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iranian ambassador to the U.N., called Bolton's claims"fake intelligence" that was "being produced by the same people who, in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, did the same." Charges that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction and supporting militant groups such as Al-Qaeda later proved false, after he had been overthrown, an act that shook the region.
By the time ISIS began to sweep across both Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2013, these Iran-backed paramilitary forces focused on supporting government forces against the jihadis, who were then targeted by a U.S.-led coalition formed the following year.
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