Iran warns any country that attacks will be ‘main battlefield’
By : AFP
Date: 21 Sep 2019
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 29, 2018, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, then deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, speaks during a conference on the approaching 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in the capital Tehran. - Salami, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned today that any country that attacks the Islamic republic will see its territory turn into the conflict's "main battlefield". (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 24, 2018, Hossein Salami, then deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attends a public funeral ceremony, in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz. – The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Hossein Salami warned today that any country that attacks the Islamic republic will see its territory turn into the conflict’s “main battlefield”. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Saturday that any country that attacks the Islamic republic will see its territory turn into the conflict’s “main battlefield”.
“Whoever wants their land to become the main battlefield, go ahead,” Guards commander Hossein Salami told a news conference in Tehran.
“We will never allow any war to encroach upon Iran’s territory.
“We hope that they don’t make a strategic mistake” as they have before, Salami said, before listing past US military “adventures” against Iran.
Salami was speaking at Tehran’s Islamic Revolution and Holy Defence museum during the unveiling of an exhibition of what Iran says are US and other drones captured in its territory.
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