Armed Forces: Iran views US as no. 1 enemy

Iran’s Armed Forces in a statement issued on Wednesday lashed out at the US for the numerous plots it has hatched against Iran’s Islamic establishment since the onset of the Islamic Revolution in the country.

“The Iranian nation still considers the criminal America as its number one enemy and the main cause of the man’s problems and calamities in the world,” the Armed Forces said in the statement.

The statement further underlined failure of all plans and strategies pursued by the US and anti-revolutionary front against Iran, and said, “There is no doubt that the wise and devoted nation of the Islamic Iran will turn the threats ahead to strategic and determining opportunities to attain the high cause and ideals of the Revolution.”

The statement came a day before countrywide rallies in Iran to mark the 31st anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran.

Iranian students seized the United States’ espionage center at its embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The two countries have had tense relations ever since.

November 4 has emerged as an anti-American day in Iran with thousands of Iranian students gathering annually outside the former US embassy complex in Tehran to shout slogans against the United States and Israel.