In a response to US PresidentDonald Trump'sremark on the timeline ofIran war, the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that it is Tehran, and not Washington, that will decide its end. On Monday, Trump said that the war against Iran may be short-lived despite the country's selection of a new hard-line supreme leader to oversee the fight for the Islamic theocracy's survival. Responding to Trump's remark, IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini said hat the comments as “nothing but lies” and said that the US president was trying to “fabricate military achievements” after humiliating defeats, according to the Tasnim news agency.
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“We are the ones who will determine the end of this war,” Naeini declared. “We know that your ammunition is about to run out and that you are looking for an honorable way out of the war. Why don’t you tell the truth to the American people? Trump doesn’t want Americans to know that all US military infrastructure in the Persian Gulf region has been destroyed,” he said.
Naeni also denied Trump’s claim that US and Israeli attacks have degraded Iran’s missile capabilities, saying more projectiles are being fired “than the early days of the war, in larger numbers, and with warheads weighing more than one tonne”.
"Very soon. Look everything they have is gone including their leadership. In fact their two levels of leadership and even actually as it turns out more than that, but two levels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about. So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective," Trump had earlier said.
Moments after saying that the Iran war would be short-lived, Trump hinted that the worst fighting could still be ahead as he threatened intensified action if Iran made any "attempt to stop the globe's oil supply".
The US would respond with force “twenty times harder” if Tehran takes any action that disrupts the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The US president added that Washington could strike “easily destroyable targets” that would make it extremely difficult for Iran to rebuild its national infrastructure, warning that “death, fire and fury” would follow if the strait’s oil traffic is halted.
"We are putting an end to all of this threat once and for all, and the result will be lower oil prices, oil and gas prices for American families," Trump said.
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