Leader's top military aide: US forced to leave West Asia

Top military aide to the Leader, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, underlined that the US is forced to pull out military forces from West Asia after it failed to establish a foothold in the region.

"The Americans are forced to withdraw from West Asia because they are an oppressive government and cannot establish security in the region," General Rahim Safavi said in Tehran on Sunday.

"Iran has paid a high cost to establish security in West Asia in pursuit of peace in the region but the Americans, the British and the Zionists are considered as the main source of insecurity in the region and of course, most of their attempts are focused on selling weapons and looting the resources of the regional states," he added.

Rahim Safavi referred to the US hostile measures against Iran, and said Washington and its allies have sustained a defeat from Iran, Russia and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group in Syria and their Greater Middle-East Plan has fallen flat, and Iran has been able to thwart their plots in the region.

In relevant remarks in November, Rahim Safavi, who is a military advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, underlined that the resistance front's victories against the US and its allies in the region had increased Iran's influence in West Asia.

EA