IRGC commander Hossein Salami opined that “when the Americans are in the region, they will both harm themselves and the nations of the region, and their existence results in nothing but the deterioration of their own power and damage to the nations of the region”. He further contended that “the U.S. has tested the power of the Islamic Republic of Iran and knows very well how Iran will react to any efforts to undermine it”. “Instead of deploying their troops around the world to displace people”, Salami added, “it is better to keep their army in the U.S. to solve the problems of its people, like Iran, which has used its armed forces to fight coronavirus”.