IRGC chief: US root cause of all political, military tensions worldwide
The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) called the United States the root cause of all political and military tensions, crimes, massacres and occupation in the world.
Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks in an address to a rally held in the capital Tehran to commemorate the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance, also known as the National Student Day.
Referring to the US crimes as well as military and political interference in other countries, including the deadly atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran, its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and killings of Black people and Indian-Americans in the US, Salami said this is the real face of the United States.
For the past 45 years and since the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the US has tried to turn all Islamic lands into battlefields. However, he underlined that the US policies have failed in the region. Salami pointed to the US failure in defeating the Iranian nation by supporting the former dictator of Iraq Saddam Hossein during the 1980s war on Iran as well as imposing sanctions on Iran.
He also referred to the US failure in implementing the project of the Abraham Accords to normalize relations between the Israeli regime and Arab countries as another defeat for Washington in the region.
Also on Sunday, the IRGC commander in a statement on the occasion of the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance, extolled the historic day as an “indelible watershed” in exposing the true nature of the US and its mischief against the freedom-loving and rights-seeking nations of the world.
Salami said the Israeli atrocities, perpetrated under the command and all-round support of the administration in Washington, against the strategic region of West Asia, not least the innocent people in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, are regarded as the “biggest and most valid reason and justification for the loss of American human rights.”
Salami’s remarks came as Iranians took to the streets across the country on Sunday to commemorate the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance which marks the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy by Iranian university students in the capital Tehran.