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Iran’s Bagheri: We Need No Permission to Develop Defense Capabilities

Iran’s Bagheri: We Need No Permission to Develop Defense Capabilities
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The Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri dismissed on Wednesday US demands for Tehran to curb its influence in the region, and said it would not seek permission from any country to develop defense capabilities.

 

Iran’s Bagheri: We Need No Permission to Develop Defense Capabilities

"Iranian armed forces are now, thanks to God, more prepared than ever and will not wait for the permission or approval of any power to develop defense capabilities," Bagheri said.

The statement came two days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington would impose "the strongest sanctions in history" if Tehran did not curb its regional influence and limit its missile program.

 

Bagheri called US leaders "disloyal, cruel, criminal, isolated, angry, corrupt, and on the Zionist regime's payroll," and said Washington did not have the courage for a military confrontation with Tehran.

For his part, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also slammed Pompeo, calling his comments about Iran "untrue."

Zarif said Pompeo repeated old allegations against Tehran "only with a stronger and more indecent tone."

"Pompeo and other US officials are trapped in old illusions ... They are taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups," Zarif said in a live interview on state television.

Earlier on Monday, Pompeo vowed that the US would step up efforts against Iran's support for resistance groups in Yemen, Lebanon and Palestine, in addition to its support for Syria.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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