Any new attack on Iran would prompt significant changes in the geography of the war and the weapons used, a spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said.
“If another aggression takes place, there will certainly be significant changes in our defence and our counterattack,” Second Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi said on Monday, adding, “We will definitely change the geography of the war,” Press TV reports.
He said Iran would introduce new weapons and military equipment with new capabilities, adding that “the world will be astounded” by them.
Mohebbi also identified several areas in which the United States had suffered strategic defeats in its unprovoked war on the Islamic Republic.
“The United States has been defeated in this war, and its defeat is also a historic and humiliating defeat, but it does not have the courage to admit and accept this defeat,” he said.
Mohebbi said Washington had failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz despite possessing the world’s largest navy and having defined one of the main reasons for its regional and global presence as ensuring energy security and freedom of navigation.
“One of the areas of the United States’ defeat is its failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,” he said, adding that Washington had brought all its capabilities into play but “could not” reopen the waterway after Iran closed it off in response to what Tehran describes as the joint US-Israeli war of aggression.
He said the United States had also failed to achieve its declared objective of ensuring the security of energy flows and freedom of navigation, arguing that a country that claimed to be seeking security had instead become “a disruptor of security”.
Mohebbi also pointed to US military bases across the region as another liability for Washington.
“The defeat of the United States here was that all the investment it had made to provide security was turned into the opposite of security,” he said, pointing out that the bases had come under what he called devastating strikes by the Iranian Armed Forces.
He further elaborated on what he described as a major intelligence defeat for the Americans. According to Mohebbi, Washington had been portrayed as possessing an advanced and inaccessible intelligence system protected by the latest technologies.
However, he said Iranian missiles had struck US intelligence centres in areas around the Persian Gulf and northern Iraq, demonstrating that such facilities were not beyond reach.
He said Iran had been able to monitor and identify the facilities and attack them, which marked what he referred to as “a major intelligence defeat” for the United States among its rivals and allies.
“These are different from merely failing to achieve an objective,” Mohebbi said, adding that the failures represented what he termed a strategic defeat.