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Iran’s military chief ridicules West’s options |
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13 – The supreme commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed on Monday that the Islamic Republic would never give in to pressures on its nuclear program even if it meant facing sanctions.
“We will not back down from our stances even a slightest bit, therefore we must decisively stand up for our inalienable rights and must defend wisely our independent and mighty national identity”, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told the state-run news agency ISNA, as he referred to the expected trip by Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to Iran on February 23.
Safavi said that the United States had resorted to making accusations against Tehran’s nuclear program to divert international attention from its defeats in the region.
He said that the Islamic Republic had managed to withstand sanctions since the 1979 revolution. “Today the circumstances are better than the early days of the revolution, and such untimely resolutions will definitely not affect the [Islamic Republic">”.
He described any military attack on Iran as “idiotic”. “We will stand against them with all our strength, power, and wisdom”.
“If yesterday America and Europe brought the nuclear issue forward and today they insult [Islamic"> sanctities, they should know that, unlike before, all Muslims of the world will announce their disgust and will decisively not allow them to bring forwards issues such as human rights tomorrow so that using that excuse they can threaten Iran and Muslims”.
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