Iran’s Clout Pushing Back US Domain of Interests

(FNA)- Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami said Iran's influence has spread beyond the Iranian borders in areas where the US and other enemies had interests.

"Imam (Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Revolution) and the Revolution raised us to a position that today our Islamic Revolution defeats the enemy's policies in a thousand and several hundred kilometers beyond our borders," Salami said, addressing a ceremony in Tehran on Wednesday.

He stressed that Iran has managed to reduce the area of influence and dominance of the arrogant powers, specially the US, in Muslim territories by extending the range of the influence of Islamic Revolution.

"Today, we are engaged thousands of kilometers farther from our borders and the Revolution has infiltrated in enemy's extended areas of interest," Salami said.

Also, in relevant remarks in December, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri scoffed at the US officials’ war rhetoric against Tehran, and underlined that the interests of the US and the Zionist regime are within the reach of Iran’s weapons and military equipment.

“The Iranian nation considers as jokes the remarks by the US President (Barack Obama) and Defense Secretary (Chuck Hagel) that the military option (against Iran) is on the table,” Jazayeri said on the sidelines of a meeting with the Armed Forces’ cultural and media directors in Tehran.

He stressed the Iranian Armed Forces’ military power and defensive capabilities, and said, “At present, many of the US and Zionists’ interests are within the reach of Iran’s military power, and Tehran has made its decision long ago to confront the aggressors.”

Jazayeri also underscored that Iran’s diplomatic decisions would never be influenced by the US threats.