Biden’s ‘drowsiness’ behind his threat to use force against Iran, says military spokesman

US President Joe Biden’s threat to use force against the Islamic Republic stems from his occasional “drowsiness,” a senior Iranian general says as he recounts a history of desperate defeats by Washington and its allies against Tehran.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 aired on Wednesday, Biden was asked whether he was willing to use military force against Iran, to which he responded, “If that was the last resort, yes.”

The US president made the remarks ahead of a visit to the Israeli-occupied territories, where he also pledged that the US would work with its allies, including Israel, to confront what he called Iran’s “destabilizing activities.”

Reacting to those comments, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, the spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces, said on Friday that the US and Israel should take a look at the history of their failures against the Islamic Republic and its regional allies.

“We consider the using of the expression ‘resorting to force’ by the pathetic US president and the desperate prime minister of the fake Israeli regime [Yair Lapid] as part of their psychological warfare, delusions, and their recorded history of drowsiness,” Shekarchi said.

He further elaborated that the US was humiliated when its “den of espionage” was overtaken in Tehran; when its troops were “buried” in Tabas desert; when it was defeated in former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s eight-year war on Iran; and when Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a volley of ballistic missiles toward US-run Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq after the US military assassinated Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

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The Iranian general also pointed to disgraceful defeats and failures of the US and the Israeli regime in the face of the resistance forces in occupied Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon.

The US military forces, he went on, “were [almost] wetting their pants in the Persian Gulf” where they were detained by the IRGC forces in 2016.

Shekarchi also vowed that Biden’s verbal threat will not be left unanswered. 

“They are well aware that they will have to pay for using the word ‘force’ against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore, it would be better for them to observe the condition of the region and the world and review the history so that they can analyze the future correctly,” added the spokesman.

Biden and Lapid also made anti-Iranian rhetoric on Thursday while signing a joint strategic declaration. The US president pledged to use “all elements in its national power” to confront Iran's nuclear energy program.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi warned afterward that any mistake by the US and its allies will be met with a harsh response “that will make them regret it.”

Raeisi stated that Iran is “stronger than ever,” adding, “The great nation of Iran does not accept any kind of insecurity and crisis in the region, and the Muslim nations of the region hate the humiliating relations of their governments with America, which has led to the looting of their country’s wealth.”

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