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Sunday 18 June 2017 - 14:39
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Iran has the means to punish US: Top general



Press TV- A top Iranian military official says Tehran has the means to punish Washingtonafter US Senate approved a new sanctions bill which targets the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on terrorism charges.

The ruling establishmentin the US is a hegemonic, expansionist, bullying and blackmailing regime and the root of hostilities with us isbased in these things,"Deputy Chief of Staff of Armed ForcesBrig. Gen.Massoud Jazayeri said.

"Since the early years of the IslamicRevolution, the Iranian nation is familiar with USenmity with the revolution,the establishment and its effective organs such as the Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps," he added.

US senators approved sweeping sanctions against Iran on Thursday,imposingmandatory sanctions on people involved in Iran's ballistic missile program. The measure also would apply sanctions to the IRGC and enforce an arms embargo.

The Senate legislation, hailed by Israel and its influential lobby groups in the US,still must pass the House of Representatives and be signed by President Donald Trump to become law.

Iranian officials have said the bill violates "both in letter and spirit" a nuclear accord, to which the US is a party. They have called for a strongresponse, withIran's parliament working on retaliatory measures, according to anMP.

"If the Americans and the Zionists do not change their manners, we will take more drastic steps, hereby announcing that we have the means of punishment at our disposal," Gen. Jazayeri said without elaboration.

"Of course, America has to change its manners, or we will force the Americans to do that," he told the Central News Service which is affiliated to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

 

Jazayeri said the world public opinion views "the US and international Zionism as the godfathers of terrorism."

"All evidences suggestthatDaesh and other terrorist groups have been raised in the lap of America and reactionary regimes of the region," he said.

The commander said US measures in intensifying sanctions on Iran and accusing the IRGC of terrorism "will make us fight the Great Satan with a more determined spirit."

The"Great Satan" is the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini's description of the United States, who also leda revolution against Iran'sPahlavi regime which was a close American ally.

"This is a historical ironythat the terrorist Americans are calling the revolutionary and popular IRGC whose mission has been fighting terrorism from its inception and supporting the Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian people as well as confronting homegrown terrorists as a sponsor of terrorism," Jazayeri said.

"The other strange thing is that the peoples of the world have not forgotten the current American president's admissionabout the creation of Daesh and assistance to it," he added.

Addressing supporters at a campaign rally in Ft. Lauderdale, Floridain August, Donald Trump said then-President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton founded Daesh in the Middle East.

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