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Israel’s 20-year plot failed to disintegrate nation: Top commander
Speaking on Tuesday during an event in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Brigadier General Ali Jahanshahi said the war, which was backed militarily and technologically by the US-led military alliance of NATO, had been engineered by the regime with strategic goals, including disarmament and political collapse, none of which materialized.
“The Zionist regime imposed this war to eliminate Iran’s missile power and pursue disintegration of the nation, but it did not reach its ominous goals,” he said, pointing to sustained defense readiness, missile deterrence, and drone operations as key pillars of Iran’s response during the assault.
"Iran stood against the West during the 12-day aggression"
Jahanshahi placed the war within a broader campaign of pressure that followed Iran’s Sacred Defense (1980–1988), noting its similarity to the Western-backed conflict imposed on the country by Iraq.
He noted that adversaries have since used “cultural infiltration, human-rights accusations, the nuclear case, punitive sanctions, and finally the direct military confrontation [from June 23 to 25]” to attempt to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
On June 13, Israel launched an unprovoked war against Iran, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.
More than a week later, the United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.