Iran's Armed Forces to continue boosting defensive power
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Sat / 14 October 2017 / 12:05
Tehran (ISNA) - Iran's Armed Forces have reacted to a move by the United States' Treasury Department to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), pledging to continue the boosting of Iran's defensive power.
"On behalf of the Armed Forces and the entire prudent people of the Islamic Iran, we tell the corrupt and rogue US government that the trend toward the boosting of Iran's defensive power in order to counter America's corrupt regime will continue unabated and with more motivation and determination," Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri, who is the chief spokesman for Iran's Armed Forces said on Friday.
The remarks came hours after Trump delivered a speech in which he said he was authorizing the US Treasury Department to impose further sanctions on "the entire" IRGC for what he claimed was "its support for terrorism." Trump stopped short of designating the IRGC as "a foreign terrorist organization," however, as some reports had indicated he would do.
Brigadier General Jazayeri said there was more to come for Trump.
"The IRGC is today more powerfully disrupting US leaders' filthy schemes one after another, and on the rest of this path, many things remain unsaid, but the Trump administration will see their outward manifestations all in good time," he noted.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke to the nation shortly after Trump's speech, dismissing the remarks of the American businessman-turned-politician as a "pile of delusional allegations" and defending the IRGC.
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