In the face of enemies arrogant moves, the country should step up to the plate and shut their mouths with a firm response, Ayatollah Khamenei said Sunday in a meeting with Irans newly-elected lawmakers here in Tehran.
Because if the enemy feels that the opposite side is passive and likely to retreat, it will not step back but make more excessive demands, Ayatollah Khamenei added.
The Leader further pointed to the nuclear negotiations between Tehran and six world powers, saying that even after the July 2015 nuclear deal, the US administration and Congress as well as its presidential hopefuls are constantly threatening Iran and making excessive demands.
Ayatollah Khamenei went on to say that the Iranian government should not remain silent in the face of such arrogant moves.
Elsewhere, the Leader pointed to enemys plots against regional countries and the importance of Western Asia to the US, saying that the presence of Islam and Muslims, huge oil resources, waterways and the Zionist regime of Israel make the region important to the enemy.
Their plot against the region is what they raised a few years ago as the formation of a New Middle East or the Greater Middle East, Ayatollah Khamenei said.
However, the US plots in regional countries, like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, were not materialized due to Irans resistance, the Leader added.
The term New Middle East was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by then US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in replacement of the older and more imposing term, the Greater Middle East.
This announcement was a confirmation of an Anglo-American-Israeli military roadmap in the Middle East. This project, which has been in the planning stages for several years, consists in creating an arc of instability, chaos, and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Iran, and the borders of NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan.
By Tasnim News Agency
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