Velayati: US Blacklisting Rooted In IRGC’s Regional Victories

By Staff, Agencies

Senior Advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei Ali Akbar Velayati said the US decision to blacklist Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC] is rooted in Washington’s dissatisfaction with the elite military force’s numerous victories against terrorists in regional countries.

Velayati made the remarks during a conference held at the Islamic Azad University in support of the IRGC on Monday.

Given the IRGC’s achievements in the region, the Americans finally revealed their true intention and sanctioned the Iranian force as a “terrorist group.”

“It has been a notorious habit and outdated weapon of the West to call anyone who opposes it ‘terrorist’ and to portray any country that refuses to do its bidding as a human rights violator,” Velayati said.

The reason behind the blacklisting of the IRGC  is that “Iran has laid the foundation for true cooperation among major countries in the region, and that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine have formed a resistance front which acts as a unified force wherever a problem emerges,” Velayati noted.

He also stressed that Daesh [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL’ group] failed to seize Damascus and Baghdad firstly due to the Iraqi and Syrian people’s cooperation and secondly thanks to Iran’s support.

Daesh unleashed a campaign of death and destruction in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and managed to make sweeping territorial gains in both Arab neighbors.

At the request of the governments in Damascus and Baghdad, the IRGC’s military advisors rushed to the aid of the national Syrian and Iraqi armies, paving the way for them to undo Daesh’s gains and rid their countries of the terror outfit in late 2017, despite widely-reported attempts by the US and its allies to prevent Daesh’s collapse.