Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:4
IRGC Commander: Iran's Strategic Borders Stretched to Eastern Mediterranean,
North Africa
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930905001383

TEHRAN (FNA - Fars news agency)- Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic
Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami announced
that Iran is now fighting the enemies at its strategic borders which have
been stretched to the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.

"ٌWhile, one day, our nation was fighting the enemy at borders of Karkheh
river (in Khouzestan province, Southwestern Iran), now it has expanded its
strategic borders in this fight against enemies to the East of the
Mediterranean and North of Africa," Salami said, addressing Basiji
(volunteer) forces in the Central province of Isfahan on Wednesday.

"The Islamic Revolution is spreading and the Basiji way of thinking has made
the arrogant power face with a deadlock and a landmark historical defeat and
failure," he added.

In relevant remarks last Wednesday, Salami underlined Iran's military
capabilities, and said the country had grown so powerful that it could
target all enemies' vital interests throughout the region.

"Iran is more powerful than any other time and our defense power against the
enemies cannot be compared to the past," Salami said, addressing Basij
(volunteer) force commanders in the Northeastern city of Mashhad.

"The expansion of Iran's military power has raced up and is now making
progress at a high speed, meaning that today, we are able to hit all the
vital interests of the enemies at any point in the region," he added.

Salami referred to Iran's progress in building different military weapons
and tools, including drones, radars, missiles, air defense and radar-evading
planes, and said, "Iran is the center of regional stability and security and
the security of the world energy and regional and international shipping and
trade in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman is in the hands of Iran."

Also earlier this month, Salami underlined enemies' failure in implementing
their different plots against Iran, and said the country was growing into a
world power.

"Today, the regional Iran is turning into a global Iran," Salami said,
addressing the Armed Forces officials in Tehran.

Stressing that the power balance had changed in Iran's interest by the
important events which had happened in recent years, he said, "Iran's
strategies gave us access to the enemy in the region and when the enemy
entered our operational zone, its weak points became more obvious."

Salami said that the enemy wanted to cripple the Iranian society through
sanctions, decrease the country's regional clout by political isolation and
vacate the Iranian society and the Islamic Republic's energy by internal
seditions but Tehran made their plots fall flat through understanding their
strategies.