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TEHRAN, May 12 - A senior member of the Iranian Parliament says the United States does not seek a military confrontation with Iran and is only waging a "psychological war" against the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Head of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh made the remarks after a closed-door meeting of lawmakers with the new chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Major General Hossein Salami, on Sunday.
“Analysis of the behavior of Americans shows that they do not seek a military confrontation with Iran and are only waging a psychological war against the Islamic Republic,” the Iranian lawmaker said. They are trying to combine this issue with sanctions and economic pressure, he added.
Falahatpisheh said Iran is capable of hitting its targets from a distance of 2,000 kilometers based on a defensive policy but if American warships intend to carry out an action, they will have a distance of at least 500 kilometers away from Iran.
The United States is ratcheting up economic and military pressure on Iran, with US President Donald Trump on Thursday urging Tehran to talk to him.
"What I’d like to see with Iran, I’d like to see them call me," Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday.
But then he said he would not rule out the possibility of military action in Iran amid escalating tensions before slamming former Secretary of State John Kerry for his involvement in the issue.
His remarks came after John Bolton, the hawkish US national security advisor, said on Sunday that the United States is sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a "clear and unmistakable" message to Iran.
“The United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the US Central Command region,” Bolton said in a statement.
The Pentagon announced on Friday that the US is deploying an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery to bolster an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers already sent to the Persian Gulf.
The USS Arlington, which transports marines, amphibious vehicles, conventional landing craft and rotary aircraft, and the Patriot air defense system will join the Abraham Lincoln carrier group, it added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Falahatpisheh said Iran was fully prepared in the face of any confrontation but reiterated that the ongoing developments would not end in war.
He emphasized that no Iranian official would call Trump at all and said, "Americans will in the future be obliged to raise the issue of negotiations with Iranians more seriously and they will absolutely see that the issue of Iran will be different from any other country like North Korea."
Source: Presstv
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