IRGC Commander: Iran’s Security Borders Stretched to East Mediterranean

Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami said the US and its allies have failed to contain Iran’s power through pressures, adding that Iran’s security borders are now stretched to the East Mediterranean region.

Addressing a gathering to commemorate IRGC martyrs in the Northern Mazandaran province on Saturday, the General noted the West’s stern opposition and pressures against Iran’s progress in the field of nuclear technology, and said the western antagonism was actually aimed at confining Iran’s power and influence.

“Enemies want to deprive us of the nuclear capability, but we have today stretched our security borders to the Eastern Mediterranean,” he said.

“The wheels of our economy have now gone past the enemies’ plots and their tricks failed to stop our movement,” added the General.

He also said despite all enemy pressures, sanctions, cultural invasion and psychological operations against Iran, the Muslim country is moving ahead.

Washington and its western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and western embargos for turning down west’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed west’s demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path.

The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA’s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.

Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran’s nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.