Tehran 0
8 May 2019

The IRGC's commander, Hossein Salami, contended that "our enemies are exhausted, depressed, disappointed and defeated more than ever, yet they have not given up threatening and have turned every passage from economy and psychological operations to border insecurity into a battlefield to confront the Islamic Republic of Iran". Salami added that "we are at the highest levels of confrontation against the world arrogance [i.e the U.S.], and enemies have no more power and capacity to use". 

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