Iran's military chief of staff argued that Iran's enemies "have mobilised all their equipment and facilities to not allow the country's current stability and peace to continue... undoubtedly, if the enemy reaches to the conclusion that the benefits of a war with Iran are more than its costs, it will not hesitate to attack the country immediately". He went on to assess that "the more military threats against us fade away, the more security, cultural, soft and psychological threats increase against us".