Iran Press/Iran news: Saeed Jalili stressed that eight years of sacred defense taught enemies that military option will never work against Iran.
“Enemies say that they are no longer after a military war with Iran. The reason is the resistance that the Iranian nation displayed during eight years of sacred defense [Iran-Iraq war] and taught enemies that military option would not work for them. And it has taken away their courage to attack Iran in the past 30 years,” he said on Monday in a local ceremony in Tehran, Iran Press reported.
The pattern of resistance in the sacred defense era should now be implemented in the economic war against Iran by the United States, added the member of Iran’s Expediency Council.
Iranian nation looking for constructive interaction, not a loss
"Americans are after gaining privileges by adopting a maximum-pressure policy on Iran," he said, highlighting that the Iranian nation is looking for 'constructive' interaction, not a 'losing' one.
Last week, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei underlined that there will be no military confrontation between Iran and the US as Washington is aware that it won’t be in its interest, adding that negotiation with the US is not on the Islamic Republic’s agenda either.
“The Iranian nation’s definite option will be resistance in the face of the US, and in this confrontation, the US would be forced into a retreat,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
“Neither of us are after war. The Americans know that war will not be in their interest.” 104/203
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