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Sun, 05/01/2011 - 09:38
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Senior Commander Downplays Enemy Plots against Iran

TEHRAN, May 1 (FNA)- The hegemonic powers' bullying behavior and sanctions against Iran and the plots they have hatched to spread Iranophobia in the region have and will fail to deter Iranians from attaining their inalienable rights, a senior Iranian military commander reiterated on Saturday.
"The hegemonic system and its regional supporters should know that as they could not isolate or weaken the Iranian nation and could not trample upon the Iranian nation's rights through their supports for (former Iraqi dictator) Saddam Hussein and the Baath party, they will not succeed in ignoring the inalienable rights of the Iranians through continuing their threat, sanctions and Iranophobia strategy and through their resort to lies and deceitful measures, use of an arrogant language, hegemony and bullying behavior," Deputy Head of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Major General Gholam Ali Rashid told FNA.

Stressing that Iran has now turned into a regional power, Rashid said that the Iranian nation could prove its righteousness and managed to promote the level of its internal stability and deterrence against foreign threats through its resistance in the Iraqi imposed war (1980-1988).

Earlier this month, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Ali Jafari played down possibility of any future military threat against Iran, given the country's military might, high deterrent capabilities and intelligence supremacy over enemies' moves.

Speaking in an interview with FNA, Jafari pointed to the massive military buildup of the trans-regional forces during the last 8 years (since the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq), and said during the same period Iran has been able to prepare itself and promote its capabilities, specially in military arenas.

"Now and at the end of this eight-year period we are in such conditions that many people, including our enemies, have realized that posing a military threat against Iran is no more effective," the IRGC commander stressed.

"The cause of this deterrence is the high speed of our increased capabilities, including our missile capabilities," Jafari underlined.

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