News - Middle East: Iran’s top military official has warned that the country’s Armed Forces will unleash “strategic surprises” to deliver a timely and crushing response to any threat from bullying and oppressive powers.

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, made the remark in a message to commemorate the Sacred Defense Week, which marks an eight-year war of aggression imposed on Iran by then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.

"We assure the noble and heroic Iranian nation that the Armed Forces are prepared to give a timely, decisive, regret-inducing, and unfathomable response to any threats by global bullying [powers] and oppressors through relying on [own devised] strategic surprises,” Mousavi said.

In the face of threats, Iran will not remain passive and will turn every threat into an opportunity to display its power in the regional and international scene, he added.

Pointing to Israel-US acts of aggression against Iran in June, he emphasized that the enemy failed to achieve its objectives during the 12-day war, thanks to the Islamic Republic’s military and defensive power and its regional capabilities, as well as the strong and proportional response of the Armed Forces.

The top Iranian general emphasized the importance of improving modern and advanced defense technologies and deterrence power, along with preparedness to counter hybrid war, especially the cognitive warfare of the enemy.

In mid-June, Israel unleashed war on Iran, assassinating high-ranking military commanders, scientists, and civilians. Iran responded decisively by launching waves of ballistic and hypersonic missiles at sensitive Israeli targets in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and other occupied cities. 

Once the United States joined the Israeli aggression by striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, the American air base of Al Udeid in Qatar was targeted by the Iranian Armed Forces.

The White House then proposed a ceasefire, which Israel accepted.

Iran and the United States had been in the middle of indirect nuclear talks when Israel launched the aggression. A sixth round of negotiations was suspended. 

Source: Press TV