'In spite of all the pressure in the past 40 years, Americans have failed to do a damn thing and their vicious move will bear no fruit.' Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says as US declares the Guard a terror group
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and their families in Tehran, Iran. April 9, 2019.
"They wish to plot against our Sepah ... it is in the frontline of confronting enemies of our revolution and has always defended the country ... America has failed to block our advancements," Khamenei said, addressing a group of from the Guard. Comprising an estimated 125,000-strong military with army, navy and air units, the Guards also command the Basij, a religious volunteer paramilitary and control Iran's missile programmes. Its overseas Quds forces have fought Iran's proxy wars in the region.
"This mistake will unite Iranians and the Guards will grow more popular in Iran and in the region ... America has used terrorists as a tool in the region while the Guards have fought against them from Iraq to Syria," Rouhani said.Tehran retaliated against Washington's decision by naming the United States Central Command as a terrorist organisation and the US government as a sponsor of terror.
Revolutionary Guards commanders have repeatedly said that US bases in the Middle East and US aircraft carriers in the Gulf are within range of Iranian missiles. Under the nuclear deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations were lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a nuclear programme the West suspected was geared to developing an atom bomb.
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