Iran-inspired Muslim revival worries West – general

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 – A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the West was worried by the rise of Islamic militancy around the world that has been inspired by Iran and that the confrontation between the Muslim world and the West was now at an “epoch-making stage”, Iran’s government-owned press reported on Sunday.
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Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 – A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the West was worried by the rise of Islamic militancy around the world that has been inspired by Iran and that the confrontation between the Muslim world and the West was now at an “epoch-making stage”, Iran’s government-owned press reported on Sunday.

Speaking at a naval parade in Tehran, Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, director of the IRGC political bureau, said that the West was using terrorism and Iran’s acquisition of nuclear technology as pretexts in its confrontation with the Muslim world.

“The victory of Hamas and the global reaction to the insult against the holy visage of the Prophet showed the West how strong the Muslim reawakening is. This has frightened world powers”, Javani said.

Javani said the West’s strategy was to force Tehran to beat the retreat with regard to its nuclear program. He added, however, that Tehran had the necessary capacity to withstand such global pressure.

“Right now, American analysts are saying that America’s biggest problem is that Iran is not paying any attention to their threats. They cannot do anything in the face of our resistance”, he said.

“By influencing the world opinion, they are trying to create the circumstances for Iran to retreat on the nuclear issue, but the reality is that the will of the Islamic Republic will prevail over these pressures”.