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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

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Iran Newspaper front pages

Newspapers on Saturday covered the remarks made by IRGC Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani about Iran’s role in Syria.

President Hassan Rouhani’s trip to Southeast Asia, Vietnam and Malaysia in particular, was also a top story today.

The possibility of a clash between Russia and US in Syria also received great coverage.

The above issues, as well as many more, are highlighted in the following headlines:

 

Abrar:

1- IRGC Commander: We’ll Crush Our Enemies in Case of Any Aggression

2- Colombian President Wins Nobel Peace Prize

3- Amano: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Still Fragile

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Afkar:

1- Saudi Government Condemned to Violation of Children and Women’s Rights

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Fabius’ Untold Stories about Nuclear Talks: Iran’s Negotiating Team Was Tough

2- Vietnam’s Economic Lesson for Iran: Wonderful Economic Growth in Spite of Maintaining Anti-West Stances

3- Zarif Is Happy that He Was Not Given the Nobel Peace Prize

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Tehran Mayor Has More Power than the President

2- Hard-line Group Ansar Hezbollah Holds Protest Rally against FIFA WCQ Match between Iran and South Korea Due to Be Held in Tehran One Day before Martyrdom Anniversary of Imam Hussein

3- Iran and Vietnam Sign Banking MoU: Iran Poised to Conquer East Asian Markets

4- Sale of Newly-Born Babies at Alarming Level: Triplets in Arak Put Up for Auction

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Asrar:

1- Larijani: I Won’t Run for Presidential Elections

2- General Soleimani: ISIS and Takfiris Were Created to Target Iran

3- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Warns against Use of Military Option in Syria

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Etemad:

1- Turkish Ambassador to Tehran in Interview with Etemad: We’ve Offered to Mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia; Erdogan Tried to Resolve Tehran-Riyadh Conflicts in Separate Meetings with Rouhani and King Salman

2- Rouhani in East Asia: Abundant Investment Flowing towards Iran

3- If We Don’t Fight Corruption, the Islamic Republic Will Be Overthrown: Former MP Tavakkoli

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Ettela’at:

1- Rouhani Hold Talks with Leaders of Vietnam and Malaysia: Jump in Iran-Southeast Asia Ties

2- General Soleimani: Iran’s Resistance Prevented ISIS from Establishing a State

3- Moscow: US Attack on Syria Army Will Face Russia’s Reaction

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Hamshahri:

1- Cars That Pollute the Air Won’t Be Allowed in Tehran Anymore

2- Economy Minister: We Wasted Our Money by Paying Cash Subsidies

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Iran:

1- Total Executive: Competition between Major Oil Companies for Return to Iran

2- EU Ratifies Draft Text of Strategic Document: We’re Interested in Developing Our Economic Cooperation with Iran and Lifting the Sanctions

3- Spring of Iran’s Relations with Southeast Asia in Post-JCPOA

4- Iran and Vietnam Underline Need for 5-Fold Increase of Trade Ties

5- Iranian and Vietnamese Banks Connect Their Card Switches to Each Other

6- Iran and Malaysia Resolved to Restore Level of Ties to Pre-Sanctions Level and Then Double Bilateral Trade

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Jame Jam:

1- A Report on Annual Deaths of 100,000ha of Forests in Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Javan:

1- Renault: Iranian Car Makers Pressure Us for Selling Our Cars in Higher Prices

2- Iran’s Most Developed Auto Manufacturing Company Given to the Disloyal Peugeot

3- Moscow: Attack on Syrian Army Means Attack on Russia

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- EU Preparing for All-Out Expansion of Ties with Iran

2- Larijani: LCs of Foreign Banks Are Increasing

3- UNSC Officially Announces Guterres as New Secretary General

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Kayhan:

1- Russia’s Unprecedented Threat against US: We’ll Answer Any Attack on Syria with Our S-400 System; Our Experts Don’t Have Enough Time to Identify the Planes: We’ll Shoot Down All Fighter Jets

2- Vietnam President: Courage and Resistance of Iranian Nation Is Admirable for Nation and Gov’t of Vietnam

3- Deal between IDRO and Renault Is against Iran’s Constitution

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Khorasan:

1- General Soleimani Says ISIS Was Created for Iran, Not for Syria

2- Vietnamese President: Rouhani’s Trip Indicates Ayatollah Khamenei’s Kindness

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Mardom Salari:

1- Deputy FM: Iran and China Start Cooperation in Arak Heavy Water Facility

2- AEOI Spokesman: We Produce 20 Tons of Heavy Water Each Year

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Payam-e Zaman:

1- No Power Can Overcome Iranian Nation: IRGC Navy Commander

2- Good Nuclear News Will Be Released: Deputy Head of AEOI

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Quds:

1- France’s Deals with Iran Become Controversial: Secret Car Deals Bring Minister to Parliament

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Rah-e Mardom:

1- Rouhani: We’ll Turn 2016 into the Year of Movement in Development of Tehran-Kuala Lampur Ties

2- Ugly Phenomenon of Scrawling on Historical Monuments: Should Historical Sites Be Given to Private Sector?

3- Central Bank Governor: Iran and Vietnam Establish Joint Banking Committee

4- Selling and Smoking Cigarette Banned around Holy Sites

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Resalat:

1- Amir Abdollahian: US Has Failed to Manage the Gam in Aleppo in Favour of Terrorists

2- Senior Cleric: Government Should Not Be Optimistic about US

3- General Soleimani: In Syria, We’re Defending Islam and Islamic Republic

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Shargh:

1- A New Book Published about Ayatollah Rafsanjani: I Want to Be Champion of Peace

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Iranians Gripped by Obesity, Diabetes, and Lack of Movement: Age for Heart Attacks and Strokes in Iran 10 Years Less than World Average

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- General Soleimani: Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Is Too Hasty and May Even Kill Their Own King

2- Iraq Refers Turkey’s Military Aggression to UNSC: Baghdad’s Warning to Ankara

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 8

Iranian General Slams US Democrats’ Hypocrisy in Election Campaign

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Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, senior military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, said Democrats are fueling conflicts in Iraq and Syria in order to cover up their failed tactics over the past years and portray them as an active policy to deceive American voters.

The democrats, who have been pledging victory against terrorists in Syria and Iraq for years, have turned the tide of war in terrorists’ favor, the senior general deplored.

The top officer also slammed the US for bombing the Syrian Army and voluntary forces in Syria and killing Sunni voluntary forces in Iraq, saying such bloodshed has been misrepresented as counterterrorism efforts ahead of the US presidential election.

Major General Firouzabadi also cautioned the American people against their politicians’ deceitful conducts, stressing that the American taxpayer bears the cost of such acts of violence and bloodshed.

Washington’s belligerent policies are of no benefit to the American people and are adopted by order of the Zionists, who have occupied Palestine, and by Saudi Wahhabists’ provocations.

While the US presidential election of 2016 is scheduled for November 8, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump defend their respective party platforms on Middle East issues.

Envoy Highlights Global Merits of Iran’s Anti-Drug Campaign

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Addressing the third committee of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, the Iranian Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gholamhossein Dehqani said, “As a country at the frontline of countering illicit drugs, the Islamic Republic of Iran has sustained huge life and property losses in order to deprive the merchants of death of the bulk of their illicit drugs; and thus protecting part of the global community from the evil of addiction.”

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Mr. Chairman,

As a country at the frontline of countering illicit drugs, the Islamic Republic of Iran has sustained huge life and property losses in order to deprive the merchants of death of the bulk of their illicit drugs; and thus protecting part of the global community from the evil of addiction.

In fact, around 4000 of our law enforcement officers have lost their lives while 12,000 have been maimed in the course of Iran’s relentless campaign against regional and international armed drug traffickers. Iran has also spent billions of dollars for equipping the border areas and creating physical barriers along its borders for blocking the drug flow into the country as well as transiting it abroad. As a result, on an average more than 80 percent of world opium and approximately 40 percent of world heroin and morphine are seized in Iran so much so that only in 2015 approximately 620 tons of different types of drugs were seized in Iran.

Meanwhile, within the framework of a balanced strategy on reduction of supply and demand, the government has implemented extensive drug demand reduction programs including prevention, treatment, harms reduction, rehab and social reintegration.

As a result of these interventions 40 percent coverage is provided for the country’s population in the field of prevention programs; targeting families, educational settings, work places and communities. Besides, 40 percent voluntary referral by addicts and drug users to harm reduction centers and treatment clinics is recorded, which is one of the highest figures in the world. As a result a 60 percent decrease in HIV transmission among injecting drug users has been recorded.

Following a community-based approach adopted by President Rouhani’s administration, more than 85 percent of programs on drug demand reduction including prevention, treatment, harms reduction and social supports are currently provided by NGOs and private sector.

The Government also seeks reduction of prison inmate population by implementing alternative punishment plans for drug-related offenders and providing harm reduction and treatment services in prisons.

Mr. Chairperson,

The Islamic Republic of Iran calls for adoption of a balanced and comprehensive strategy at all levels, that away from political considerations, ensures expansion of regional and international cooperation for realization of the principle of collective and international shared responsibility. Unfortunately, for a long time the brunt of the burden is mainly born by transit countries like mine. While drug traffickers with obvious links to terrorist groups including Takfiri ones and organized crime gangs are targeting the social fabric of our society and stealing our future and youth generation, the support provided by the international community has been thus far negligible.

In conclusion, Iran maintains that the three international drug control conventions shape the bedrocks of the international drug control system due to their comprehensive and flexible nature. We also underline the leading role of CND and UNODC in addressing world drug problem. They have to sustain their role as such.

Thank you for your attention.

UN Envoy Hails Iran’s Efforts to Resolve Syrian Crisis

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Speaking in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari in Geneva on Friday, de Mistura described the Islamic Republic as an important and influential country in the region that can play a major role in resolving the five-year-old conflict in Syria.

He further said the UN has a clear stance on terror organizations and regards Daesh (ISIS or ISIL), al-Nusra and other al-Qaeda-linked organizations as terrorist groups.

The Iranian deputy foreign minister, for his part, highlighted the humanitarian, security and political aspects of the Syrian crisis and said the humanitarian aspect of the crisis is the most urgent issue which needs to be addressed.

Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups, including Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL), currently controlling parts of it.

According to a report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.

In the meantime, Iran has remained a close ally of Syria and supports its legitimate government in the face of foreign-backed militancy.

There’s Nothing Pleasing about Washington’s Anti-Saudi Law: Iranian Analyst

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Sabah Zanganeh

Here’s IFP’s translation of excerpts from Omid-e Iranian website’s interview with Sabah Zanganeh, a former Iranian envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and a senior Middle East analyst:

 

On September 28, the US Senate and then the US House of Representatives overrode the US President Barack Obama’s veto on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JUSTA) bill that allows families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia’s government as well as other countries involved in terror attacks.

Dr. Sabah Zanganeh believes that the ratification of such a law is not unrelated to certain consultations behind the closed doors, and can allow the US to put more pressure on all countries in the future.

“The adoption of the law will definitely pave the way for bringing certain Saudi officials to trial. People in the US are very eager to do so, in a way that immediately after the law was passed, a member of one of the 9/11 victims’ families filed her lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. The ratification of such a law has benefits for both US parties, the GOP and the Democrats, particularly before the upcoming elections,” Zanganeh said.

However, he added, we should consider the fact that this law involves different aspects.

“Apparently, it seems that the law is aimed at countering Saudi Arabia and receiving compensation for the 9/11 attack. However, the text of the law is written in a way that it goes beyond a particular subject and case. Therefore, the ratification of such a law will have consequences for all countries in the world, and can be used as a pretext for violating different countries’ sovereignty in various cases and files.”

“Not only isn’t it a source of happiness for other countries, it can also be worrying to the countries that are concerned about US interference or punishment under such pretexts,” he noted.

“I believe that, unlike how the law looks like, its ratification is not just targeting Saudi Arabia and there can be secret consultations behind,” Zanganeh stressed, warning that such laws can endanger the positions of other countries.”

He further referred to the sense of xenophobia the US presidential candidates are giving to American people, and stressed that such propaganda and Islamophobic moves have been effective on the final adoption of the new law.

“The negative aspects of the law should be investigated. A country has passed a law that addresses other government and holds them accountable for the terrorist attacks and criminal acts committed by non-governmental groups. Such a law would prepare the grounds for the expansion of US federal courts’ scope of work at the international level.”

According to JASTA, an American court hearing a claim against the Saudi government “may stay a proceeding against a foreign state if the Secretary of State certifies that the United States is engaged in good faith discussions with the foreign state defendant concerning the resolution of the claims against the foreign state.”

On the other hand, if the US State Department do not certify that the US has good ties with a country, the US federal courts can bring that country to trial and sentence them to compensating the damage.

Zanganeh believes that such aspects of JASTA would make the world a place for the US administration to play with the stick of legal prosecution in its domestic courts.

Based on this law, no country and government would be able to make any move against the interests of US statesmen, he said.

Hurricane Matthew Death Toll Nears 900 in Haiti

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Hurricane Matthew’s trail of destruction in Haiti stunned those emerging from the aftermath on Friday, with the number of dead soaring to 877, tens of thousands left homeless and outbreaks of cholera already claiming more lives.

 

Information trickled in from remote areas that were cut off by the storm and it became clear that at least 175 people died in villages clustered among the hills and on the coast of Haiti’s fertile western tip.

Rural clinics overflowed with patients whose wounds including broken bones had not been treated since the storm hit on Tuesday. Food was scarce and at least seven people died of cholera, likely because of flood water mixing with sewage.

The storm razed homes to their foundations. The corrugated metal roofs of those still standing were ripped off, the contents visible from above as if peering into doll’s houses.

At least three towns reported dozens of fatalities, including the hilly farming village of Chantal, whose mayor said 86 people were killed, mostly when trees crushed houses. He said 20 more people were missing.

“A tree fell on the house and flattened it, the entire house fell on us. I couldn’t get out,” said driver Jean-Pierre Jean-Donald, 27, who had been married for a year.

“People came to lift the rubble, and then we saw my wife who had died in the same spot,” said Jean-Donald, his young daughter by his side, crying “Mommy.”

The death toll continued to rise on Friday in southwest Haiti. Dozens more were missing, many of them in the Grand’Anse region on the northern side of the peninsula.

“We flew over parts of the Grand’Anse region. It’s a humanitarian catastrophe,” said Frenel Kedner, a government official in the town of Jeremie in southwest Haiti. “The people urgently need food, water, medicine.”

 

 

Cholera Cases Rise

In the town of Anse-d’Hainault, seven people died of cholera, a disease that did not exist in Haiti until UN peace keepers introduced it after a 2010 earthquake that killed some 200,000 people.

Another 17 cholera cases were reported in Chardonnieres on the south coast.

“Due to massive flooding and its impact on water and sanitation infrastructure, cholera cases are expected to surge after Hurricane Matthew and through the normal rainy season until the start of 2017,” the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in a statement.

With fatalities mounting, various government agencies and committees differed on total deaths. A Reuters count of deaths reported by civil protection and local officials put the toll at 877.

Haiti’s central civil protection agency, which takes longer to collate numbers because it needs to visually confirm victims itself, said 271 people died as Matthew smashed through the western peninsula on Tuesday with 145 mph (233 kph) winds and torrential rain.

Some 61,500 people were in shelters, the agency said.

Matthew pushed the sea into fragile coastal villages, some of which are only now being contacted.

Coastal town Les Anglais lost “several dozen” people, Louis-Paul Raphael, the central government representative in the region, told Reuters.

Les Anglais was the first place in Haiti that Matthew reached, as a powerful Category 4 storm before it moved north, lost strength and lashed central Florida on Friday.

With cell phone networks down and roads flooded by sea and river water, aid has been slow to reach towns and villages. Instead, locals have been helping each other.

“My house wasn’t destroyed, so I am receiving people, like it’s a temporary shelter,” said Bellony Amazan in the town of Cavaillon, where around a dozen people died. Amazan said she had no food to give people.

Outside Chantal, stall holders at a makeshift market were selling vegetables and soft drinks, brought in from Port-Au-Prince as roads were cleared to the capital.

“All our houses have been destroyed. This is our existence,” said one stall holder, who declined to give her name.

 

Iran Stopped Daesh from Turning into State: President Rouhani

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“If it were not for Iran’s assistance and role, you would not be seeing [just] a group named Daesh, [rather] you would be seeing a large Daeshstate in Syria and Iraq, and the region would be facing a big endless war,” President Rouhani said, addressing a group of Malaysian intellectuals and media people in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

Such a war, he said, could have even turned into an international one.

The Islamic Republic has been providing advisory assistance to the militaries of Iraq and Syria in their fight against Daesh on requests from the governments of the two Arab countries.

Daesh started ravaging Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Rouhani said Iran’s regional policy was predicated on the four principles of “fighting Takfiri terrorism on the ground,” “effective contribution to peace, ceasefire, and humanitarian assistance,” and “the non-disintegration of countries and preservation of geographical borders,” and “recourse to electoral processes and the rule of people.”

He said there had to be a ceasefire in Yemen and Syria and the people there had to be expeditiously supplied with humanitarian aid.

The region’s geographical borders must stay the same, President Rouhani said, adding that the disintegration of countries is dangerous and can compound problems and fan regional wars.

“Governments cannot be selected for the people of the region from outside, and anyone who assumes power through people’s vote should be respected by all,” he said.

The Iranian president also warned against attempts to cause sectarian rifts between Shias and Sunnis.

He voiced satisfaction with the discourse used by a large part of the Muslim world, including Iran and Malaysia, concerning the Islamic culture was marked by “moderation.”

Rouhani is on a three-leg tour of Southeast Asia, which started out in Vietnam and will finally take him to Thailand.

Separately, the Iranian president had met with Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia, the current speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of the Parliament of Malaysia. He has also met with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

US Eases More Sanctions against Iran after Nuclear Deal

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The Treasury Department published new guidance on Friday allowing businesses to do dollar transactions with Iran by offshore banking institutions as long as they do not enter the US financial system.

The department also removed a blanket ban on foreign transactions with Iranian firms that may be run by individuals who are subject to US sanctions. The Treasury describes those people as “specially designated nationals” or SDNs.

Iran and the P5+1 group – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia plus Germany – reached the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on July 14, 2015.

In accordance to the JCPOA, which took effect in January, Iran has undertaken to put limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions.

The US, however, has continued to maintain sanctions on Iran and a number of Iranian companies and individuals, prompting complaints from Tehran that Washington is failing to implement its side of the deal.

Iran says the US is scaring foreign companies from doing business in or with the country, as they fear punishment for violating sanctions.

“As has been stated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has remained committed to its commitments,” Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, said on Friday.

 

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“While the other side – it’s very clear now to public opinion and it’s not a secret – has not really delivered on the promises; that the sanctions would be removed and that banking transactions would go back to normal, that trade would speed up and economic relations would be enhanced. These have not been materialized to the extent that we expected,” he told The Guardian.

According to the new Treasury guidance, foreign transactions with non-sanctioned entities that are “controlled in whole or in part by an Iranian or Iran-related person on the SDN list” are “not necessarily sanctionable.”

Since January, the IAEA, which is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the JCPOA, has released regular reports confirming the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities and Tehran’s commitment to the agreement.

Iran: EU Document Positive but Partly Unrealistic

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The European Parliament on Thursday voted on a roadmap for relations with Iran, charting out “EU strategy towards Iran after the nuclear agreement.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the resolution contains “positive and promising points which can help to expand relations between Iran and the European Union and open a new horizon in bilateral ties.”

“However, this resolution also contains some points concerning the human rights situation in Iran which do not correlate with the existing realities and are partly affected by the negative propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Such content, he said, is not conducive to the betterment of the relations between the Islamic Republic and the EU.

“While human rights negotiations are set to be held between Iran and the EU in the near future, the adoption of such positions is questionable and unconstructive and does not in any way help elevate the human rights discourse and [only] reinforces speculations of intervention in our country’s domestic affairs,” he said.

Qassemi also said that while the resolution had a merely advisory nature and was not binding, the members of the European Parliament had better be more realistic and more forward-looking.

The resolution foresees the normalization of the bloc’s ties with Iran following the 2015 nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic and six world powers. The EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy coordinated for the talks that culminated in the deal.

Authored by Richard Howitt, who represents Britain’s Labour Party at the European Parliament, the document “welcomes Iran’s contribution to the fight against ISIS,” referring to Daesh by an English acronym but also criticizes Iran’s human rights record.

US Source of Persian Gulf Woes: IRGC Admiral

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In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi highlighted the IRGC Navy’s vigilant presence in the southern waters and its success to ensure security of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

Asked about occasional encounters with American forces in the Persian Gulf, the commander said all such events originate from the source of corruption, namely the US.

The US forces are the root cause of all evil acts in the Persian Gulf and in West Asia, Fadavi added, saying Americans have two objectives, fulfilling their own interests and showing hostility to the Islamic Republic.

Despite all American evil conducts, the situation is under control and Iran is in charge of security across the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, he added.

In comments in May, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei also hammered the US for its schemes against Iran’s military presence in the Persian Gulf and made it clear that the Islamic Republic will continue to demonstrate power at its home, the Persian Gulf.

“The Persian Gulf is the Iranian nation’s home …, and the coasts of the Persian Gulf and large parts of the Sea of Oman coasts belong to this strong nation,” Imam Khamenei said at the time, adding, “Today, the enemies are biting off more than they can chew. For example, they draw plans that Iran should not hold military war games in the Persian Gulf.”

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