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TEHRAN, Jun 23 -A senior Iranian commander warns the United States to act responsibility in the region if it seeks to protect the lives of its forces operating here.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The remarks by the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Khatam al-Anbiya Airbase came on Sunday, less than five days after the elite force shot down an American spy drone, which ignored the IRGC’s repeated warnings and intruded into the country’s airspace.
Major-General Gholam-Ali Rashid, who was visiting the command and control center responsible for the IRGC Aerospace Division’s radars and missile systems, urged the US administration to “avoid wrongful behavior in the region.”
He advised Washington to “avoid any misconduct” to ensure the safety of the soldiers it has deployed to the region and prevent any risk to their lives.
The IRGC specified the downed intruding aircraft as a sophisticated US-made Global Hawk, saying it was brought down over the southern coastal province of Hormozgan.
The Corps, however, spared a second spy plane carrying 35 passengers, which was accompanying the drone.
Rashid further said Tehran “has never pursued and will not pursue war, but we will powerfully defend the honorable Iranian nation’s interests against whatever threat or incursion.”
The senior genera warned that if a conflict erupts in the region, no country will be able to control its scale and timing.
Given the interconnected nature of the regional countries’ fates, a potential conflict could hardly be contained within a certain country’s borders, he cautioned.
The Islamic Republic, he added, was engaged in a “strategic confrontation to preserve its stability and existence as well as its position as a regional power in the face of an American-Zionist-Saudi coalition.”
The general was pointing to Washington’s close cooperation and alliance with the Israeli and Saudi regime as it pushes ahead with an antagonistic agenda against the Islamic Republic.
“Either we will all move on the path of stability or the region will be engulfed by instability and war due to America’s interventionist policies and provocations of certain known states,” Rashid added. “To avert war, mere words are not enough; they need to be followed by determination and proper behavior.”
The United States has been escalating tensions with Iran under President Donald Trump. Leading a signature policy of “maximum pressure,” the US quit a United Nations-ratified nuclear agreement between Iran and six world states. It then proceeded to restore the sanctions that had been lifted under the deal.
Washington has, in addition, sent an aircraft carrier strike group, a bomber task force, an amphibious assault ship, and some 1,500 more forces to the region.
Earlier this week, the Pentagon approved deployment of an extra 1,000 reinforcements. Two days later, the Pentagon also said it was dispatching more Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and aircraft to the Middle East alongside the reinforcements.
The US has cited, what it calls, alleged intention by Iran to target the American interests in the region for the alarming escalation.
Tehran has rejected harboring any such malevolence, warning that the region cannot take another conflict as a result of Washington’s reckless measures
Source:presstv
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