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6 May 2021
Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), on Thursday scorned the military forces of Israel and the U.S. as “weaklings” as he boasted of the “blistering” military capabilities at the disposal of Tehran.
A clearly excited Salami was participating in an interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Channel Two TV network, boasting his elite Quds Force was “not only defeating the U.S. forces in the region, but also inciting the whole region against the presence of the U.S. forces.”
“The Americans are forced to leave the Middle East gradually and today you see that a part of the U.S. terrorist army is departing from Afghanistan, and this exit is the result of the nations’ will,” he continued, saluting “the resistance forces in the region” as reasons for the claimed U.S. retreat from global engagement.