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Top gen. vows ‘more decisive response’ to any act of aggression
Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said on Tuesday that the country’s Armed Forces are ready to deliver a “more decisive response” to another act of aggression by the United States and the Israeli regime.
Given a history of breaking promises by the US and Israel, Iran’s Armed Forces are prepared to deliver a more decisive response to another act of aggression by them, Mousavi told visiting Chief of the South African National Defense Force, General Rudzani Maphwanya, in Tehran.
A cease-fire on June 24 proposed by the US ended a 12-day aggression by Israel and the US against Iran after Iran’s Armed Forces “crushing” missile strikes targeted Israel’s positions in the occupied territories as well as the US largest military site in the Middle East in Qatar.
Major General Mousavi also referred to the Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and hailed South Africa’s move to file a complaint against the regime in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Maphwanya said Iran has always supported the freedom-seeking struggles of the people of South Africa against apartheid, which has created a historical bond between the two nations.
The South African official also held a separate meeting with Iran’s Army commander Major General Amir Hatami, during which they commended their countries’ common goal of fighting the global arrogance and aggressive colonial approaches.
The Iranian commander noted that the two sides were similarly bound by anti-colonial, anti-arrogance, and justice-driven principles, hailing that the African nation had been accorded a “prioritized” position in the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy approach.
“The Islamic Republic and South Africa have always supported each other and oppressed nations,” Hatami declared, underscoring that the shared mission had to last until restoration of an international order “based on justice and human dignity.”
The commander described South Africa’s “firm stance” in condemning the Israeli regime’s and the United States joint atrocities against Palestinians as both “courageous and commendable.”
As a case in point regarding Pretoria’s fight against the regime’s aggression, he cited and praised Pretoria’s decision to challenge the Zionist regime at the ICJ over its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The move, he said, would “go down in history.”
Recalling Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran in June, the commander denounced Tel Aviv and Washington for violating international law through the aggression.
He, however, underlined that the duo’s all-out campaign to damage the country ended in humiliation, with Iranian missile counterstrikes forcing Tel Aviv to seek a ceasefire and Washington to refrain from resuming its attacks.
The commander further stressed that the political alignment between Tehran and Pretoria had lent South Africa “a special position” in Iran’s strategic outreach to Africa, expressing hope to translate shared capabilities, especially in the military sphere, into concrete joint projects.