IRGC chief: US can't save Israel from inevitable collapse

A senior Iranian commander says the Israeli regime will “definitely collapse” and the United States cannot save it by giving it artificial respiration.

Speaking at a ceremony in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Friday, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) extolled the surprise attack by Palestinian resistance groups against Israeli forces in the occupied territories on October 7.

Major General Hossein Salami said the Israeli regime’s “deterrence capacity” is exhausted.

Salami was speaking on the 35th day of Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the largest military operation by the Gaza Strip-based resistance groups against the occupying regime in decades.

“At least 1,500 Palestinians launched an attack, and during the attack and on the [Israeli] front line, which is the strongest defense line in the world, not a single Palestinian was martyred and not a single shot was fired, and all the weapons were disabled even though all the settlers were armed,” Salami said.

“The Israeli occupation army had stationed a reliable and strong defense system near the Gaza Strip but they failed to notice; no one noticed,” he stated. 

The IRGC chief said the mystery of the Palestinians' sneak passage through Israeli walls, embankments and information and security barriers is unknown and the secrets of the victory on October 7 will probably be revealed later. 

“Today, the deterrence capacity of the Zionist regime has been broken,” Salami stated.

“The United States cannot save the regime; it cannot give it artificial respiration. The Zionist regime has no roots in the political geography of this region and will definitely collapse,” he said. 

Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Palestinian resistance groups launched the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s intensified crimes against Palestinians.

The Palestinian resistance movements of Hamas and Islamic jihad fired about 5,000 missiles at the occupied territories, killing at least 1,400 Israeli troops and settlers, also taking captive some 250 Israelis during their attack.

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