Top commander says martyred Leader’s defense strategy delivered battlefield victory
Iran's top operational commander said the country's armed forces secured battlefield victories in the two recent imposed wars by following the defense priorities set by the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Martyr Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Major General Ali Abdollahi, the commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters made the remarks on the sidelines of the farewell ceremony of the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution and Commander-in-Chief Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Friday.
“We were victorious on the battlefield thanks to the efforts of our warriors and the guidance of the Grand Ayatollah, Martyr Seyyed Ali Khamenei,” he said.
Also speaking on the sidelines of the major event, Iran's police chief, Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan, said that the power of the country’s armed forces has been showcased to the entire world after the Islamic Republic emerged victorious in its war against the strongest armies in the world.
"If today the powerful armed forces stood against the strongest armies in the world, it was because of the efforts of the martyred leader of the nation," Radan said.
Senior Iranian military officials pay tribute to the martyred Leader and reaffirm their commitment to his defense roadmap
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The chief of the Iranian Army was also among the senior commanders who paid tribute to the martyred leader on Friday.
Major General Amir Hatami vowed to avenge the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“With a stronger will, we declare to the enemies of the Iranian nation: America and the criminal Zionist regime that we will avenge the blood of the martyred Imam and the martyrs,” Hatami said.
Iran has begun the first stage of funeral ceremonies for the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in a cowardly US-Israeli strike on the first day of the recent 40-day war on February 28, with foreign dignitaries and religious figures paying their respects at Tehran's Grand Mosalla.
The Leader's body, along with those of his companions, was transferred to Tehran's Grand Mosalla early Friday and placed in the main prayer hall ahead of a two-day public farewell ceremony.
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