The terrorist Jafari’s comments on October 8 follow several media reports saying that US President Donald Trump intends to announce plans to decertify the 2015 nuclear deal that global powers forged with Iran in 2015 -- declaring it not in US interests. The move would give the Republican-controlled Congress 60 days to decide whether to reinstate sanctions on Tehran that were suspended under the agreement.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted the terrorist IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari as saying that “if new sanctions go into effect,” the United States should “move its regional bases to a 2,000-kilometer radius” from Iran, adding that 2,000 kilometers is “the range of Iranian missiles.”
The US military currently has bases less than 800 kilometers from Iran’s borders in countries neighboring Iran.
Jafari also said that if the United States designates the IRGC as a terrorist group, the IRGC would consider the US Army a terrorist group.
The IRGC, Iran’s most powerful internal and external security force, is known for its tough talk, but it doesn’t outline the country’s official position.
The United States has designated the IRGC’s external branch -- the Quds Force -- and a number of individuals and entities associated with the organization as terrorist, but not the IRGC as a whole.
In an interview taped earlier this week and aired on October 7 on Trinity Broadcasting Network, Trump declined to specify his intentions in regard to the nuclear accord with Iran, but he said he is “very unhappy with the deal…I’m very unhappy with their attitude.”
“The spirit of the deal, certainly, is not there…They are literally causing trouble, predominantly in the Middle East,” he added.
Trump’s latest comments are in line with what he said during an October 5 meeting with military leaders at the White House, 10 days before a deadline to decide whether to certify that Iran is in compliance with the deal, which he has sharply criticized.
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