US aims to encourage regional insecurity, loot energy resources: IRGC chief commander

Chief Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami

The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States only intends to foment insecurity in the region and loot its energy resources.

“The US behavior will not change with coming to power of an individual like [Joe] Biden. The US approaches may change but its goals will not change. The main goal of the Americans is to make the countries of the region insecure and to expose them to constant tension,” Major General Hossein Salami said while speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday on the 40th day since the passing away of his deputy, Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi.

He added that there would be no peace in the region during Biden’s tenure, saying, “The spread of insecurity in Muslim countries is among main purposes of the US to undermine these states. The destruction of their power structure and control over the energy resources and economy of the Muslim world are among established US strategies.”

“The Americans will pursue the same strategies during Biden’s tenure and they are not trustworthy. They will continue to support Israel and Saudi Arabia and are the root causes of insecurity in the region,” Salami emphasized.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the IRGC chief commander drew comparison between Palestinian resistance against Israel and that of the Yemeni people in the face of Saudi aggression and said although Yemen is geographically far from Palestine, they are one single body in terms of beliefs and goals.

Speaking to Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network also on the sidelines of the ceremony, Salami added that the Yemeni people stood by the Palestinians during the recent 11-day Israeli war on Gaza which showed their solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

He noted that millions of Yemeni people expressed their solidarity with Palestine, which indicated the level of their unity and consolidation with the Palestinians.

The Gaza war began on May 10 and lasted until May 21, when the occupying regime announced a unilateral ceasefire which was accepted, through Egyptian mediation, by the Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza.

The war was precipitated after weeks of Israeli violence against Palestinian worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque and the regime’s attempts to force more Palestinians out of their homes in  Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to build new illegal settlements.

Throughout the 11-day encounter, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, wounded almost 2,000, and displaced over 72,000 people in the besieged enclave. On the other side, Palestinian rocket attacks killed 12 people in the occupied territories.

Resistance front will achieve bigger victories: IRGC Aerospace Division commander

Meanwhile, the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Division, Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, said the Zionist regime and the US are declining and would face more defeats as the resistance front would achieve bigger victories in the future.

Speaking on the sidelines of the same ceremony, Hajizadeh added that victories of the resistance front and back-to-back defeats of the global arrogance and the Zionist regime are not confined to their policies vis-à-vis Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq or Yemen.

“The Zionists know that they should pack up and leave this region. In the Gaza war, … according to the leaders of the Zionist regime, they (Gazans) exposed the nature and failure of this regime to the world. This is only the beginning of the collapse of the Zionist regime and a turning point in its decline,” he added.

The IRGC commander pointed to the Palestinian resistance’s victory against the Zionist regime during the recent Gaza war and emphasized that Palestine’s fierce resistance was a testimony of the resistance front’s power.

“All those who oppress people in the world will collapse, and God willing, we will see bigger successes and victories in the future, and greater victories are ahead,” he pointed out.

In a congratulatory statement on May 21, the IRGC said the great victory of the Palestinian resistance front in the face of Israel’s recent crimes and warmongering proves that the “atrocious and child-killing” regime is facing definite decline and must expect “lethal and heavy blow” from brave Palestinians.

The IRGC said “Operation Sword of al-Quds” exposed the superior hand of the Intifada in the battlefield and the change of equations in favor of the Palestinians in their confrontation with the Zionists.

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