Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 2
By Farhad Daneshvar – Trend:
While the US power has weakened over the past several years, Iran’s situation has improved, a high-ranking Iranian official believes.
“We nowadays observe that gaps have appeared between Europe and the US. There are some reasons for this, including the fact that the Europeans have come up with the result that the Islamic Republic is a stable state in Western Asia which has the final say in the region,” Mehr news agency quoted Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on military affairs, as saying.
Rahim Safavi said the US over the past decade has failed to reach its objectives in invading Afghanistan and Iraq, suffering huge costs and leaving over 15,000 wounded.
“However, they eventually failed to fulfill their wishes and plans,” he added.
“The US president [Donald Trump] also criticizes the measures taken over the past eight years regarding war costs imposed on America. This is a fact that the US power has weakened,” the Iranian official said.
Saying that Iran’s power has increased, Rahim Safavi accused the US of fanning the flames of war in the region.
Donald Trump criticized the US policies regarding the Iraq war on Feb. 1.
