*Mocks Trump’s Claim Of Curtailed Capabilities, Insists More Crushing Strikes Underway
Talking tough, the Iranian military has responded to United States (US) President Donald Trump’s remarks yesterday, warning that the war in the Middle East will continue until the US faces what it described as “lasting humiliation and surrender.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Military Headquarters, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, threatened to launch “stronger, wider, and more destructive” attacks against the US and Israeli forces, rejecting Trump’s claims that its capabilities have been significantly weakened.
The statement came hours after Trump said that over the next two to three weeks, the US is going to bring Iran back to the “Stone Ages, where they belong”. He also claimed that US forces would meet all their battlefield goals “very, very shortly.”
The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Military Headquarters is Iran’s highest operational command unit that coordinates operations between the Iranian Army and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“This war will continue until you face permanent humiliation, regret, and surrender. Expect more crushing and devastating strikes from us in continuation of the severe blows you have already received,” Zolfaghari said.
In his televised address, Trump had said that Iran had “very few” missile launchers left and that its ability to launch missiles and drones had been “dramatically curtailed.”
“Your intelligence on our military power and equipment is incomplete. You know nothing of our vast strategic capabilities,” the statement issued by Zolfaghari said.
In a direct response to Trump’s claim, Zolfaghari told Washington not to assume that US forces have destroyed Iranian strategic missile production sites.
He maintained that key defence assets, including missile production facilities, long-range attack and precision drones, modern air-defence systems, electronic warfare, and electronic warfare capabilities, remain intact and operational.
“Such assumptions will only deepen the quagmire you have fallen into,” he said.
The Iranian official said the sites that the US “hit are insignificant. Our strategic military production takes place at locations you do not know about and will never reach.
“Do not bother trying to count our missiles, drones, and strategic systems; you will be wrong and achieve nothing.”
Accusing the US and Israeli forces of initiating hostilities, the Iranian military leader vowed continued retaliation.
The spokesperson warned that further attacks would follow, describing them as “decisive and damaging responses” to what Iran considers acts of aggression.
*PHOTO CAPTION: Zolfaghari (l) and Trump.
