Iran Revolutionary Guards Commander: US presence a threat

Iran Focus reports:

In an apparent reference to the presence of US troops in Iraq, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Corps (IRGC) official called for Iran to mobilize its troops against the "dangerous Zionist threat".

Speaking to Revolutionary Guards and Iran's Bassij (paramilitary police) forces in Khuzestan on Tuesday Deputy IRGC Commander Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr said, "The Islamic Republic will not tolerate American presence in the region".

"The presence of this country('s forces) poses a dangerous threat to our nation's interests", Zolqadr said.

"The (Revolutionary) Guards cannot ignore their presence", he added. more

Let's not forget that Iran's Supreme leader Khamenei has already said Iran is at war:

"We are at war with the enemy," Iran's Supreme Guide Ali Khamenehi told a meeting of mullahs in the city of Hamadan, west of Teheran, last Monday. "The central battlefield [of this war] is Iraq."

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