US-led Persian Gulf coalition doomed to fail: Senior IRGC cmdr.

A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has described a United States plan for forming a naval coalition to interfere in the Persian Gulf as a self-defeating initiative.

“The enemy should know that it cannot do anything. As have its previous coalitions, this one, too, will definitely go to rack and ruin and fail to materialize,” the IRGC deputy commander for political affairs, Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, said in Tehran on Thursday, Tasnim News Agency reported.

“The region’s security is provided by its nations, Iran, and our Armed Forces,” he asserted.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Javani addressed the US threats of military attack on Iran, saying, “Were the Americans intent on engaging in a battle with us, they would have probably shown some reaction after the downing of the Americans’ most modern and advanced drone” by Iranian forces.

In June, the IRGC Air Force brought down the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone near the Kouh-e Mobarak region — which sits in the central district of Jask County — after the aircraft violated the Iranian airspace.

Javani emphasized that if the US aircraft had been downed using an advanced S-300 or S-400 air defense system, its downing could not have been rated as a source of pride.

“But this masterpiece of American technology, which is reputed for being radar-evasive and stealth in action, was hunted down by an indigenous [Iranian] defense system dubbed Khordad-3,” he said.

The IRGC commander reiterated that Washington essentially does not harbor the idea of attacking Iran, apparently pointing to several occasions when senior American officials have disowned such intention.

“If, however, they choose to perpetrate a blunder someday, the entire region will come crashing on their heads,” the IRGC deputy commander aconcluded.

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