IRGC commander: Iranian ground force unbeatable

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami praised the power and capabilities of the IRGC and army ground forces, stressing that defeating his nation is a mission impossible.

"We will not be defeated in any war on the ground with God's help and presence of the IRGC Ground Force and other Armed Forces which defend the revolution and the country," General Salami said, addressing the IRGC Ground Force commanders in the Northeastern city of Mashhad on Tuesday.

He described the IRGC Ground Force as one of the world's superior Ground Forces in ideas and creativity.

General Salami referred to the enemies' economic, social, political, cultural and hybrid war against Iran, and said, "Today, the enemy is active in all arenas and actually, we are at a full-scale and all-out war with enemy."

In relevant remarks last Thursday, General Salami underlined failure of the world powers in their plots against Iran, saying that they had failed to intimidate the country by their pressures and military awe.

"We are witnessing the failure of enemies' ideas in the field. The failure of big powers can be seen very readily and all ways have been closed to them," General Salami said.

He referred to the US and its allies' plots to spread fear of war in Iran, and said, "They have exerted economic pressure and launched psychological operations and economic war but today they are the ones who fear war due to the Iranian nation's resistance."

Also, last Wednesday, General Salami said that Iran's military power and might had taken the military option off the table for the US, stating that the US was fearful of war against Iran.

"We have completely blocked the road to the enemies in the military field and we have reversed the balance. Under the current situation, it is the enemies who are concerned about war and this concern is displayed in their physical and tactical behavior," General Salami said, addressing the commanders and personnel of Khatam al-Anbia base in Tehran.

He said the US exercised a similar offensive strategy in the political field first, but "eventually, they announced that they didn't intend to go for a confrontation and called it a quit; in fact, this was a retreat to give them a chance to save themselves from a bottleneck they had created themselves."

"Today, our global power is very well known and credited, and it includes an extraordinary deterrence capacity; we have managed to shatter the United States' awe in the world public opinion" on the scene of action, General Salami said.

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