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Iran's IRGC says US is retreating from region

The head of Iran's IRGC said that the United States is now leaving the Middle East.

Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami delivers a speech.
Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami delivers a speech during a rally outside the former US Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 2021. — AFP via Getty Images)

Commander in Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami spoke about the United States and Israel in his latest speech.

“Our enemy is in a state of flight and defeat,” Salami said. “Today you see the news of the Zionist regime and how they are in a political collapse, and if you look at the US, it is thinking of an honorable exit and cannot stay in the Islamic world.” 

Salami continued, “Today the enemy is depressed, withered and bored from pursuing its goals and is searching for an exit.” He said the United States did not think Iran would continue to resist it for 44 years and “with empty hands spread the Islamic revolution.” 

He said the United States can continue to sanction Iran “so that medicine does not reach our boys and girls,” but everyone knows that "the enemy does not want good for us.” He also predicted that Iran will soon "be a part of world powers.”

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