Senior
Iranian Official Boasts of IRGC Presence Abroad
by IPT News • Apr 24, 2018 at
2:49 pm
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Iran will not back down from supporting terrorist proxies in the region
and spreading its Islamic ideology abroad, a senior official in Iran's
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reiterated.
IRGC's operations "are not limited to Iran," Ali Fadavi, the
IRGC's naval commander, said in an interview Monday with the Farsi language
Jamaran site and reported
by Al Arabiya.
Fadavi openly discussed the fact that IRGC operatives are currently
"fighting the enemy thousands of kilometers away from our
borders" – an offensive force posture seen as "necessary" to
spread Iran's revolutionary ideology.
"Guarding the Islamic revolution does not only mean guarding one
country and one government, i.e. Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps does not have any appendage attached to it and these were the orders
of Imam Khomeini," Fadavi said.
The IRGC's primary objective is not protecting Iran's national security,
he said, but to spread Shi'a Islamist ideology across the entire Middle
East and Muslim world.
Iran has flat out rejected any efforts to renegotiate the
nuclear agreement, amid reports of European efforts last month to constrain
Iran's regional expansion and ballistic missile program.
Speaking in Tehran earlier this month, Ayatollah Khamenei proclaimed that Europe and the United States have no
right to discuss Iran's regional activities. The region, Khamenei said in
the same speech, belongs to Iran, not Europe.
Last month, the European Union reportedly was mulling new sanctions over non-nuclear related activities in an
effort to keep the United States from terminating the nuclear agreement.
In response, Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National
Security Council, said that Iran "will not accept any changes, any
interpretation or new measure aimed at limiting" the 2015 nuclear
deal.
After a meeting in Tehran last month, Iran's foreign minister rejected his French counterpart's call to rein in
Iran's missile program in an effort to preserve the nuclear agreement.
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Trump met Tuesday to discuss the Iran nuclear deal's future.
Trump called the agreement a "terrible deal" because it did not
include restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program or destabilizing
regional activities.
Recent statements from senior Iranian officials indicate that the
Islamic Republic will not stop pursuing their quest for regional hegemony.
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