Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ shows US debilitated, desperate: Fmr. IRGC chief

Donald Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" shows how much the United States has been weakened, says the former chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), calling for formation of an "Islamic army" to confront American hegemony. 

"In the current regional developments, America's slogan is 'make America great again,' which shows how much they have been humiliated and weakened," Mohsen Rezaei said while addressing an event in the city of Mashhad.

“Today, the region is witnessing unprecedented brutality by the criminal [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the Zionist regime,” Rezaei, who currently serves as a member of Iran’s Expediency Council, added.

He noted that six countries are currently engaged in the war against this regime, including Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine.

“They have been standing from the depth of their hearts against the bloodthirsty front of the Zionist regime and its supporters,” including the US and Britain, noted the major general. 

Iran, Rezaei maintained, seeks to prevent a wider war in the region, but this doesn’t mean that the Israeli regime and its supporters "can commit any mistake they want and receive no answer.”

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Noting that the Israeli regime is seeking to achieve its expansionist ambitions, Rezaei warned that “the regime will not hesitate to take any action, and will even attack Saudi Arabia and Turkey if necessary.”

He attributed the current regional tensions to Western plots that target the region’s natural resources, calling for forming a military alliance between the Muslim countries to thwart such schemes.

“Muslim countries should form a large Islamic army and stand against these plots which are in line with the proxy hegemony of the US;  If each country contributes just one battalion to this army, the enemy will retreat as soon as the army is formed.”

Since early October 2023, Israel has been waging brutal two-front aggression that has killed more than 43,736 people in the Gaza Strip and at least 3,365 others in Lebanon so far.

Over the same period, the usurping regime has also assassinated several resistance leaders, including Hamas’s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

In support of Palestinians in Gaza, resistance groups have launched retaliatory attacks on Israeli targets and vowed to keep fighting until the Gaza onslaught ends.

In response to Israel’s barbaric acts of assassination against the resistance front’s top leaders, Iran carried out Operation True Promise 2 earlier last month.

Later that month, Israel attacked several military facilities in Iran, killing four servicemen of the Armed Forces and one civilian. Iran has said it is resolved to respond to the recent Israeli act of aggression against the country and will not abandon its rights.

It has warned the United States, which plays a pivotal role in supporting Israeli actions in destabilizing regional peace and security, to rein in the illegitimate regime.

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