IRGC commander views Iran as role model for other nations

A senior Iranian military official said despite enemies’ sanctions and other pressures to bar Iran’s progress, the country has turned into a role model for the other nations after it made astonishing progress in different fields and after the world saw the logic of its revolution prevailed over the West’s irrational approach.

“Today Iran has turned into a yardstick and a role model for the other countries in a way that during the election campaigns in a country, like Brazil, supporting Iran’s policies plays a decisive role in winning more votes,” IRGC Lieutenant Commander General Hossein Salami said.

Salami reiterated that Tehran has gained this reputation through its resistance against the arrogant powers which have long launched continued global negative propaganda against the Islamic Republic and imposed increasing political and economic pressures on Iran to oblige the country to give up its rights.

He stressed that despite all pressures and sanctions, the Islamic Revolution is still moving ahead in an energetic and spirited manner and has influenced the thoughts and minds of the people in different parts of the world.

Tehran has gone under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West’s calls to give up its NPT right of uranium enrichment.

Iran says that it would not accept West’s politically tainted and illogical demands, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path of progress and the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The United States 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.

But, political observers believe that the US 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 nations.