Deputy Chief of Staff: Any US Stupid Move Will Receive Iran’s Crushing Response

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri played down the recent comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry against Iran, stressing Tehran’s preparedness to give a crushing response to any aggressor.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will show its real might to the Americans if the US makes any stupid military move,” Brigadier General Jazzayeri said on Sunday night in reaction to Kerry’s recent statements against Iran.

Kerry in an interview with ABC news said that he could not promise about striking a deal with Iran, but “we are going to test whether or not diplomacy can prevent this weapon from being created, so you don’t have to turn to additional measures including the possibility of a military confrontation.”

Brigadier General Jazzayeri pointed to Iran’s military might and preparedness, and said, “In case of military confrontation, we will act in a way that we will get rid of the US forever.”

“Kerry’s stupidity is to such an extent that he thinks the Islamic Republic of Iran will relinquish its interests through military threats,” Brigadier General Jazzayeri added.

He underlined that Iran’s reinforced defense and large-scale and widespread air defense will force the US to exit the strategic region of Western Asia.

In related development on Sunday, Iranian Supreme Leader’s top aide Ali Akbar Velayati slammed senior US negotiator Wendy Sherman for her hostile remarks against Tehran amidst the nuclear talks, and said the country will never give up its rights even under harsher sanctions.

“She always makes her statements in such a way that the radical side of the public opinion in the US would not criticize the Obama administration in response; this is while the current US government has also sometimes uttered contradictory words in its positions, but she (Sherman) is person known for her radical and irrational positions,” Velayati told reporters after meeting Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Tehran.

“Therefore, we should tell her and others to know that the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue its honorable life with or without sanctions; it is natural for Iran to try to remove the sanctions, but it will never withdraw from its principled positions due to the cruel sanctions,” he added.

His remarks came after US Under Secretary of State, Sherman, said that sanctions against Iran should continue.

She made the remarks as senior officials from Iran and the six world powers will hold more talks in Montreux, Switzerland, on March 5, according to a Saturday announcement by the European Union (EU).

The talks between political directors will be preceded by a series of bilateral meetings between Iran and some of the members of the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) starting on Monday, March 2.