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Armed Forces not to abandon even an inch of Iran’s soil: Army chief
Major General Amir Hatami made the remarks while visiting Shahid Lashgari Air Base in Tehran.
In a meeting with the pilots of the military base, Hatami emphasized that the Army’s duty is to safeguard the territorial integrity, independence, and establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Stressing that Iran’s Army will continue its mission with full strength, he said, “We demonstrated during the eight-year Sacred Defense (Iraq’s imposed war on Iran in the 1980s) that we will never allow a single inch of Iran’s soil to be separated.”
His comments came amid high tensions between Iran and the Israel following a 12-day unprovoked aggression by the regime against Iran last month, which claimed the lives of nearly 1,100 Iranians including women and children, as well as a dozen top military brass.
The Israeli regime launched its aggression on Iran’s military and civilian infrastructure on June 13.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces launched a retaliatory campaign, Operation True Promise III, against Israel by targeting its key military, intelligence, industrial, energy, and R&D facilities.
Iran’s Armed Forces also launched a missile attack on the US largest military base in the Middle East in Qatar after Washington joined the aggression on June 22 by targeting three Iranian nuclear facilities of Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
The Israeli regime was forced on June 24 to declare a unilateral halt to its aggression, which was announced on its behalf by US President Donald Trump.