Enemy Plots Foiled Thanks to Armed Forces’ Preparedness: Iranian Commander

“After the Islamic Revolution (in 1979), the enemy intended to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran, but the preparedness of the armed forces caused it to fail,” Brigadier General Pourdastan said in a speech on Monday.

He further pointed to the US government’s hostilities toward Iran, saying that right after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, which “checkmated” Americans, they started a new phase of threats against Iran.

The commander added that the enemy tried, in vain, to destroy the country through various plots, including sedition, sanction, isolation, terror and bombing and finally through the Iraqi imposed war on Iran in 1980.

In relevant remarks in July, Ayatollah Khamenei slammed the US as the “true embodiment of arrogance”, stressing that the Islamic Republic's fight against the global arrogance and hegemony will never come to a halt.

"Based on Quranic tenets, the battle against the arrogance and hegemonic system could never be interrupted, and today, the US is the clearest embodiment of arrogance," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a gathering of Iranian university students in Tehran on July 12.

The Leader made the comments after a student asked about the future of the fight on arrogance following completion of the nuclear talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).

"Fighting the arrogance is among the fundamentals of the (Islamic) Revolution and is a basic task; therefore, be prepared for continuing the battle against arrogance," the Leader told the students at the time.

The Leader explained that “the root cause of the global bullying powers’ hostility towards the Iranian nation is the Islamic Republic's rejection of the system” which is based on hegemony.