Iranian Guard chief says USA still ‘Great Satan’

“This morning we took these clothes off leading distributors”, he said, noting that any stores that sell such items “will be closed”.

It was last week that Iran unveiled a new surface to surface missile it said could strike targets with pinpoint accuracy within a range of 500kms, a move which would likely worry Tehran’s regional rivals.

On April 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree paving the way for the long-overdue delivery of the defense system to Iran after Tehran and six world powers reached a mutual understanding on Tehran’s nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.

But it is not only Iran’s past deception and its continued reliance on the key figures in that deception that makes the Islamic Republic a poor prospect for negotiation.

Yazdi told the Assembly of Experts at its annual meeting on Tuesday that Tehran should not “change our foreign policy” of resistance against the USA, who he referred to as “our number one enemy, whose crimes are uncountable”.

While most analysts believe Congress will not be able to muster the two-thirds majority needed to override Obama’s veto of a congressional resolution rejecting the deal, several have also noted that the battle over the deal is far from over, and part of it will be waged on the state level.

The United States and Iran cut their relationship the hostage-taking of American diplomats by Islamist students in 1980.

The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, reported by the official Guard website, said that “the enmity against Iranian nation by the USA has not lessened and it has been increased”.

“Terrorism is one of the scourges plaguing the human community since old times”, Rouhani said, adding, “In the modern world and modern politics, terror and terrorists have taken on a new shape”.

Along with the United States, it orchestrated a coup that toppled Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 after he had nationalised the oil industry.

The Energy Department has developed computer simulations and laboratory technology to ensure the reliability of the US nuclear arsenal without test explosions, he noted, and those abilities helped structure the Iran deal and will help monitor it. He said, “Put simply, no deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East”.

But there are still complicating factors in the expansion of trade relations between Iran and the West, and they exist on both sides of this divide. It has to be a multi-faceted cultural, religious, political, economic and if necessary military campaign against this threat.

“We need to uproot the sources and the main reasons that give rise to this phenomenon”.