Iran Renews Warning to Shut Strait of Hormuz in Case of Slightest Military
Action by Enemies
Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:39
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier
General Ali Shadmani renewed Tehran's threat that the country would block
the Strait of Hormuz if it is faced with enemies' direct military action.
"If the enemy makes a small mistake, we will shut the Strait of Hormuz, kill
their sedition in the bud and endanger the arrogant powers' interests,"
General Shadmani said, addressing a gathering in the Western city of
Kermanshah on Tuesday.
His remarks came after Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards
Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami warned the US in May to avoid
crisis escalation, and said the Iranian Armed Forces will stop and block the
passage of any vessel that they deem as a threat in the strategic Strait of
Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Salami pointed to the US presence in the region, and said, "We warn the
Americans not to repeat their past mistakes and they should learn from
historical realities."
Elsewhere, General Shadmani blamed the US for supporting the terrorist
groups in the region to guarantee the Zionist regime's survival, and said,
"The Islamic Revolution has endangered the life of the Quds Occupying Regime
and today the resistance front has grown across the world."
In order to loot the Muslims' resources in the region, the arrogant powers
need autocratic rulers like the Arab Sheikhdoms who easily surrender
themselves to the aliens, he added.
In relevant remarks in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blasted
Israel for its support for the terrorist groups, and said the regime was
created and continues its life based on terrorism.
"Certain governments are created based on terrorism and see their survival
in light of terrorism and its clear instance is the fake Zionist regime in
the Palestinian territories," Rouhani said at the time.
"The (Israeli) government and regime basically started its job based on
intimidation, terrorism and occupation and today it is continuing the same
anti-human path," he added.
Elsewhere, Rouhani blasted the western states' double-standard approach
towards terrorism, and said, "Terrorism will not be annihilated as long as
collective determination and real resolve is not created in the world."
"Today, there are powers in Europe and the US which keep mum on a terrorist
grouplet and support a terrorist regime but are opposed to another terrorist
group," he said.
Rouhani referred to the spread of terrorism in the world since the US
invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite the western powers' mottoes about campaign
against terrorist groups, and asked how the world powers claim that they are
unaware of the way the terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria make revenues
through crude sales to the regional countries, while the same powers say
that they can identify the vehicles' plate numbers with the help of their
satellites.
He also voiced regret that certain regional Muslim states support terrorism
and supply the terrorist groups with weapons and financial resource, and
said, "Don’t they think that one day it will be their turn? No doubt that
any regional country that helps the terrorists and massacre of innocents and
Muslims, terrorism will backfire on them sooner or later."
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