THE Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a statement marking the third anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, hailing the historic October 7, 2023, offensive as the definitive turning point that sealed the fate of the Zionist regime and permanently shattered the myth of its military invincibility.
In the statement, the IRGC described the operation as a ‘future-making event’ that accelerated the inevitable decline of the racist, occupying regime and transformed the Resistance Axis into an undeniable strategic reality across the region.
‘Three years have passed since October 7, 2023 — the day when the fighters of the Palestinian Resistance and heroic Hamas, relying on the steel will of the oppressed Palestinian nation, executed one of the greatest operations in the history of the Resistance and crushed the security structure of the usurping Zionist regime,’ the statement read.
The IRGC emphasised that in the three years since that historic day, the strategic equations of the region have fundamentally shifted in favour of the Resistance Axis, while the Zionist regime and its principal backer, the United States, have sunk into a ‘vortex of structural crises and successive defeats’.
Quoting the martyred Leader, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the statement recalled his description of Al-Aqsa Flood as a ‘future-making event’ that cemented the path toward the definitive decline of the Zionist entity.
‘This operation not only shattered the myth of the Zionist army’s invincibility forever, but transformed the Resistance Front across the region into an undeniable strategic reality,’ the IRGC declared. ‘From Gaza to Lebanon, from Yemen to Iraq and Syria, and from Islamic Iran to the heart of the occupied territories, all stood in a single, coordinated formation, challenging the Zionist enemy and its American and regional supporters.’
Meanwhile, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says the United States will definitely fail in its economic war against Iran, just as it failed to achieve its objectives through military aggression against the Islamic Republic.
Major General Mohsen Rezaei said in a Tuesday post on his X account that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has bitterly failed in his efforts to portray Washington’s economic blockade on Iran as a success.
‘Bessent’s delusional forecasts never had any credibility in the first place. His latest propaganda will have an equally short shelf life,’ he said in the post.
Rezaei dismissed Bessent’s claims and reiterated Iran’s position that the Strait of Hormuz will only be reopened when the US accepts Tehran’s conditions for permanently ending the war and lifting its sanctions and blockades on the country.
‘You lost the military war. You will fail in the economic war, too. Hormuz will not be opened by threats or pressure. Iran will not back down.’
The statement pointed to the current realities on the battlefields as proof of the Resistance’s comprehensive superiority.
It specifically referenced the crushing defeats suffered by the US and Israel during the second and third imposed wars against Iran.
‘America, with its full-throated support for the crimes of the Zionist regime and its repeated threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran, not only failed to achieve any of its declared objectives, but lost its hollow prestige before global public opinion,’ the IRGC stated. ‘The second and third imposed wars against Iran were met with the decisive and regret-inducing response of the Armed Forces, proving that the era of cost-free threats is over.’
The IRGC issued a stern warning that any miscalculation or attempt to launch a new war of aggression against Iran would result in a ‘painful and devastating response for the aggressor’.
It specifically highlighted Iran’s firm management and operational control over the Strait of Hormuz as a crushing blow.
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