"We have strengthened ourselves to defeat the United States and when we have accumulated such powers for the largest military empire in the world, smaller powers such as the Zionist regime no longer enter our calculations," said the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran (IRGC).

General Hossein Salami said on Tuesday, September 21, that the Iranian nation had succeeded in breaking sanctions and moving the enemy away from its objectives. "The closer the enemy tries to get to the Iranian nation, the further he moves away from it and this is because of the spirit of resistance that has been flowing within our society since the days of Sacred Defense." The IRGC commander-in-chief further emphasized that Iran's enemies are on the slope of decline.