Israel escalating situation in occupied territories to escape Palestinian resistance: IRGC chief

The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has blasted Israeli forces for storming the al-Aqsa Mosque, stating that the Tel Aviv regime is stoking tensions across the occupied lands in order to escape from the Palestinian resistance and avoid retaliatory operations targeting areas deep inside Israel.

Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks in a meeting on Saturday with a number of IRGC commanders, officials, managers and personnel.

“Nowadays, the fake and criminal Zionist regime is creating crises across the occupied territories in the hope of staying away from a popular uprising (Intifada) and escaping from Palestinians’ resistance, especially from the youths in the West Bank and elsewhere. We are now witnessing the bombardment of the Gaza Strip and brutal crimes against oppressed Palestinians. Such measures, however, will not get them anywhere,” Salami said.

He said hundreds of thousands of Israelis have protested in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities for 13 straight weeks against a controversial judicial overhaul that the hard-right administration of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to pass, describing the protests as unprecedented.

Israeli forces clash with Palestinian worshiper at Al-Aqsa Mosque, again

Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces when the occupation force’s elite troops attacked worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al Quds; hundreds were injured and arrested.

The internal collapse within the Israeli society as well as the political chaos and disarray in the regime, something acknowledged by Israeli officials, have reached the point where the Tel Aviv regime will cease to exist sooner than within the 25-year timeframe predicted by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Salami pointed out.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the IRGC chief said the United States is in decline, stating that those who once used to blindly follow the US president, sought political refuge in Washington and tied their existence to US policies, are now distancing themselves from the White House and its decisions.

Salami also made a reference to recent riots in Iran, stating that the enemies of Islam had jointly constructed plots to topple the Islamic establishment, but they failed miserably.

“The US, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Zionist regime and a number of reactionary regimes in the region, together with several sell-outs, political opponents and refugees, had assembled an evil coalition in order to defeat the Islamic establishment, obliterate Islam from Iran’s political scene, and return Iran back to the era before the [1979] Islamic Revolution," he said.

Iran urges France to heed protesters’ demands rather than stoke unrest in other countries

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry calls upon French authorities to respond to the demands of protesters than seeking to stoke unrest in other countries.

“The enemies did not even hesitate to officially declare that they backed the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic Republic. The maximum pressure campaign intensified, strategies of isolation were placed at the heart of the enemies' policies, and a full-scale psychological warfare was openly waged against the Iranian nation, the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamanei and the IRGC,” Salami noted..

“However, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the great Iranian nation successfully thwarted sanctions, pressures, psychological warfare, destabilizing bids, harboring opponents and even threats of military action, which were among the enemy's mechanisms, thorough resistance and steadfastness,” the IRGC chief said.

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