Iran's Army chief: Iranians ready to fight for next 20 generations, won’t allow homeland to be harmed

Tehran - BORNA - “We will fight even for the [next] 10 generations or 20 generations,” and will not allow Iran to be undermined, Major General Amir Hatami said during a ceremony in the northwestern holy city of Mashhad on Monday.

He added that using force is the only way to “make the enemy understand that it cannot do whatever it wants.”

Hatami emphasized that enemies, above all the United States and Israel, have not stopped conspiring and hatching plots against Iran even though they failed to attain their goals in the latest unprovoked war of aggression on the Islamic Republic.

“The enemy should realize that Iran will not be a testing ground for its schemes and adventures,” the Iranian Army chief commander pointed out.

Hatami stressed that Iranian Armed Forces are closely monitoring the enemies’ plans, from short- to long-term, reiterating that they are “prepared for any possible scenario.”

“The Armed Forces, with faith in Islam, experience, readiness and wholehearted support of the noble Iranian nation, will resolutely respond to any aggression and will authoritatively defend the independence, territorial integrity and security of the country,” the top commander said.

“We must rout the enemy and leave a fairly bitter taste of defeat in its mouth. It is then time for the enemy to understand that Iran is not a spot where it could step on and declare it intends to reshape the country’s map,” Hatami noted.

On February 28, Israel and the US launched joint attacks on Tehran and other Iranian cities, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, military commanders, as well as civilians, and destroying military installations as well as critical civilian infrastructure.

Iran responded with waves of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and US bases and assets across the region.

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