Iran pres. pick for defense minister: World rejects US-led unipolar order

Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, who has been picked by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, to run the Ministry of Defense, says the world has rejected the US-led unipolar world order, and looks forward to the formation of a new order, amid the emergence of new powers.

Addressing the Iranian parliament on Monday, Nasirzadeh said the US support for Israel, which is committing a genocidal war on Gaza, has strengthened the position of Iran, the backer of the oppressed people across the world, in the West Asian region and the entire world.

“After the [Iran’s] proud operation of True Promise, the US has begun to strengthen the weakened deterrence of the infamous Zionist regime,” he said.

“After the al-Aqsa Storm operation, the Zionist regime has shown its illegitimate, tension-causing, and inhumane nature, as well as its irresponsibility toward all the international rules, more than ever, with the help of the US,” he added.

According to Nasirzadeh, Israel has “crossed the red lines of direct conflict by its cowardly assassinations and committing all kinds of war crimes against the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza.”

He was referring to Israel’s assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and an advisor to the Lebanese movement’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a suburb of the country’s capital Beirut, and its assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau Chief, in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Nasirzadeh added that the situation has highlighted the strategic importance of the Islamic Republic.

“In such an atmosphere, the Islamic Republic of Iran has managed to strengthen its distinguished and powerful position in the international arena, particularly in West Asia.”

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The spiritual influence of the Islamic Revolution has seen a rise among the oppressed and independent nations, which constitute the majority of the world’s population, Nasirzadeh said.

“Today, the strategic depth of the Islamic Republic of Iran has changed tremendously compared to the past two decades, and has paved a promising path for the production and reproduction of power to play a role in the region and beyond.”

Amid the region’s and the world’s rejection of the US-led unipolar world order, he said, the political, economic, psychological, and cultural pressures exerted by the “global arrogance” on Tehran and the resistance front have increased.

Nasirzadeh added that the unjust sanctions imposed on Iran, particularly the country’s defense and security equipment, have intensified.

As he was outlining his plans for the ministry, Nasirzadeh asserted that the ouster of the US-led foreign troops from the region is among Iran's policies.

“The continuous monitoring of defense technological developments in the world and the obtaining of product technologies that will surprise the enemy, the sustainable and effective support of the resistance front and the anti-arrogance front overtly and covertly, especially in international and regional forums, and the formation of regional and global coalitions” can help expel the foreign forces from the region.

Elsewhere, Nasirzadeh stressed that the ministry maintained “a transformational approach” in implementing its programs over the past years to achieve effective and efficient support of the armed forces and the resistance front.

He noted that the resistance front is integral to and “not separate from” the armed forces.

Nasirzadeh currently serves as the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.

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