The commander of US terrorist forces in the West Asian region has once again commented on the accuracy of Iran’s missile strike on Ain al-Assad.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency International Group, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US terrorist forces in the West Asian region, has once again commented on the accuracy of Iran’s missiles.
In an interview with The New Yorker, McKenzie said the lesson of Iran’s missile strike on Ain al-Assad was that Iran’s missile program had become a more immediate threat than its nuclear program.
McKenzie continued: “[In the Ain al-Assad attack] they are largely targeted wherever they want. They can now invade the entire Middle East. “They can carry out their attacks accurately and in [high] volume.”
The New Yorker writes that Iran’s progress has surprised both its allies and its enemies. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, this media outlet of Iran focused on the development of missiles with longer range, greater accuracy and greater destructive power. “Iran is currently one of the largest producers of missiles in the world,” the media reported.
“The US government’s special envoy for Iran, Robert Mali, said in an interview with The New Yorker: “Iran has used its ballistic missile program to intimidate or coerce its neighbors.”
A few days before the Iranian attack on the Ain al-Assad base, the US terrorist army had martyred General Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and a number of his entourage near Baghdad International Airport.
Iran’s missile strike on a US military base in Iraq is “the largest missile strike on US forces in history,” according to the BBC News a few days ago.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Kenneth McKenzie stated that Iran has reached an “overmatch” level militarily. The New Yorker writes that a country that reaches this stage has weapons that are very difficult to control or defeat.
McKenzie said: “Iran now has enormous strategic capabilities. They have excelled on the battlefield – the stage at which they can disable [the power of others].”
The New Yorker writes that the Islamic Republic of Iran has thousands of missiles, according to US intelligence. These missiles can reach 1300 miles in all directions.
In addition, according to the analysis of this publication, Iran has the ability to fire more missiles than the defense of its enemies.
Read more: Evacuation of the American base “Ain Al-Assad”; from maintaining strategy to changing tactics: https://www.paksahafat.com/en/?p=17386
In addition, Iran has hundreds of cruise missiles that can be fired from land or sea, capable of flying at low altitudes and attacking from different directions. These missiles are more difficult to track for satellites because their engines do not emit bright light when ignited, unlike ballistic missiles.
The New Yorker writes that the Biden administration’s hope is that it will use advances in Iran’s nuclear talks to expand diplomacy with the country and, ultimately, engage Iran’s neighbors in talks with the country aimed at easing regional tensions.
Joe Biden’s government officials have so far refused to take the necessary steps to return to that path, despite acknowledging the failure of the maximum pressure policy.
The interview of Robert Mali was published while “Ali Bagheri”, the senior negotiator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, arrived this morning (Monday, December 26) to participate in the eighth round of talks between Iran and the P5 + 1 group in Vienna, Austria.
The inaugural meeting of the Borjam Joint Commission to begin the eighth round of the Iranian talks has started at 6 pm Vienna time (20:30 Tehran time) at the Coburg Hotel in Vienna.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has stated that the lifting of all sanctions against Iran, so that it can be verified, is the most important agenda of the Iranian delegation in the Vienna talks.
In the government of Hassan Rouhani, the former president of Iran, six rounds of talks were held between Iran and the P4 + 1 group (Britain, Russia, China, France plus Germany).
The US side also discussed with the P5 + 1 representatives in those talks without Iran’s presence the conditions for returning to Borjam, but those talks came to a standstill due to the US insistence on not guaranteeing staying in Borjam or not lifting all sanctions.
Mali told The New Yorker: “Even if we can revive Burjam, those problems will poison the region and risk destabilizing it.”
In an interview with The New Yorker, Jeffrey Lewis, a military expert, described the possibility of Iran entering into talks to limit its nuclear program as weak. He says: “When you spend money on building facilities, training people and delivering missiles to military units, a huge structure is created that wants to maintain it all. I do not think there is any hope of limiting Iran’s nuclear program.”
Officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran have previously stated that they will not make the country’s defense and security capabilities a matter for negotiation and bargaining.
In addition, US government officials have already stated that they intend to use the entry into the BRICS as a “platform” to address other disputes, including missile and regional issues.
A few months ago, the Supreme Leader stressed in a meeting that the Americans wanted to include a clause in the Borjam nuclear deal to oblige Iran to talk about missile and regional issues.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution in his last meeting with the Twelfth Government noted: “Americans say in words and promises that we will lift the sanctions, but they did not and will not lift the sanctions, at the same time, they make a condition and say that you should include a sentence in this agreement that some issues will be discussed later, otherwise we will not have an agreement.”
Ayatollah Khamenei said: “By making this statement, they want to provide an excuse for their subsequent interventions on the principle of BRICS and missile and regional issues, and if Iran refuses to discuss them, they will say that you have violated the agreement and the agreement is without agreement.”
Robert Mali told The New Yorker that Iran’s actions across the region need to be addressed “in the not-too-distant future.”
Despite this, the New Yorker writes that so far seven US presidents have failed to curb Iran’s political influence and military leverage.
In another part of the report, the New Yorker wrote that the Israelis refer to Sardar Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards Air Force, as the new Sardar Soleimani. In 2019, Sardar Hajizadeh’s forces shot down a US reconnaissance drone over the Persian Gulf. He was also in charge of coordinating missile attacks on Ayn al-Assad.