Iran Guards chief: We have closed the military path for the enemy
The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on
Wednesday the enemy was worried about the prospect of war and was focused
instead on an economic conflict, according to the semi-official Fars news
agency.
Tensions between the United States and Iran have
increased since Trump pulled Washington out of a nuclear deal last year and
moved to bar all international sales of Iranian oil.
Last month the United States came as close as it has
ever come to bombing Iran, when President Donald Trump aborted a retaliatory
air strike minutes before impact. Trump said he decided the strike, to punish
Iran for shooting down a drone, would have killed too many people.
“In the military sphere, we have completely closed
the path for the enemy,” Major General Hossein Salami was quoted as saying.
“In the current situation it is the enemies who are
worried about the outbreak of war and this worry is apparent in their physical
and tactical behavior ... At the current crossroads, economic war is the main
field for the enemy to confront us,” he added.
