In a message addressed to countries in the region on Saturday, General Abdollahi said the United States is “pursuing, with increasing speed, the path of widespread warmongering in a regional war,” describing the approach as part of “a dangerous strategy aimed at expansion and illegitimate domination across the entire region.”
“We explicitly declare that Muslim countries must exercise foresight, monitor America’s crimes, and reconsider cooperation and alignment with the United States,” he said. “Otherwise, any country that turns itself into a defensive shield for the criminal and aggressor United States will burn in the fire of war.”
The United States has used its bases that are spread out in regional countries in its 40-day joint war of aggression on Iran, which began on February 28. Iran, in response, has attacked US military bases and interests in those countries, in addition to Israeli targets in the occupied territories.
The commander said the recent war against the Islamic Republic demonstrated that the “criminal United States” would refrain from no act of “mischief or destruction” in pursuit of its “satanic objectives,” even at the expense of the interests and resources of Muslim nations.
He said Muslim countries should recognize that Washington is using their capital, wealth, critical infrastructure, and strategic resources “as a defensive shield for its worn-out army” while simultaneously strengthening the military and security apparatus of the “child-killing and terrorist Zionist regime.”
He further said Iran, its armed forces, and the Axis of Resistance have shown that the regional balance of power “no longer follows its previous parameters,” arguing that the United States and Israel have failed to achieve their “aggressive and illegitimate strategies” against the Islamic Republic.
Iran and Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement have taken control of the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab Strait, respectively, amid escalations from the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
On Friday evening, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolqadr, warned that continued warmongering on the part of the United States will tighten the closure that the country has imposed on the Strait of Hormuz.
“The continuation of the US regime’s maritime blockade and warmongering will further tighten the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and also close other straits and chokepoints, and the global economy, energy markets, and American voters will pay the price,” he said.
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