TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan underlined that his country is always prepared to defend the resistance front against the US and its allies' hostile moves and will give a crushing response to the aggressors.

"We have transferred this experience to the world that if any country wants to make any aggression against Iran, we will make it regret its act," Dehqan said, addressing a ceremony to deliver a home-made 2,000-ton floating dock to the Navy in the Northern port city of Anzali on Thursday.

"Wherever the hegemonic system, headed by the US political system, wants to act against the resistance front, the Islamic Republic of Iran's nation and Armed Forces will stand against them with all their power," he stressed.

Dehqan, meantime, underscored that the Iranian Armed Forces do not intend to make any aggression and don�t pursue expansionist policies against the regional and trans-regional states.

In relevant remarks on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated his country's continued support for resistance groups, including the Palestinians and the Lebanese Hezbollah, as a power tool.

"I have always stated that resistance, our approach in the region and our support for the oppressed, is one of the most vital contributors to our power," Zarif said in an interview with the Persian-language daily, Khorassan.

"I am responsible for strengthening the resistance pivot and in my view, the resistance pivot should be reinvigorated as a power tool for the Islamic Republic," he added.

Also, in December, Iranian Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati renewed Tehran's strong stance in support of oppressed people and resistance movements in the region.

"Iran will support the oppressed nations of the region, the axis of resistance and the Islamic awakening and it will continue standing against the enemies' heinous dreams for the region... ," Velayati told reporters.

By Fars News Agency