TEHRAN- The IRGC chief commander on Thursday has likened the Zionist regime’s presence in the eastern Mediterranean to a “dagger plunged into the body of the Islamic world”. 

Major General Hossein Salami also said that the Tel Aviv regime acts like a “leverage” for the Western countries who are seeking to pursue their bloody policies through military presence in the region. 

Speaking in a large gathering of Friday imams and Basij commanders, he also described the U.S., Britain, and Israel as "inseparable parts of an obvious conspiracy,” emphasizing that they act in three separate geographical parts of the world but with coherently developed policies. 

Regarding the Westerners’ intervention in the region, General Salami stated on Thursday morning that Westerners seek to dominate the Islamic world, precisely the Persian Gulf region, to advance their policy and take the political destiny of the Muslims into their own hands.

No concept of Islamic world before the Islamic Revolution

The IRGC chief said that there was no concept of an "Islamic world" before the victory of the Islamic Revolution. 

Yet, he said, it was formed by the late founder of the Islamic Revolution and the Supreme Leader.

“Upon the statement of the British government on the formation of a Jewish state about 75 years ago, Palestinians were displaced from their lands, their lands were grabbed and the Haganah terrorists massacred their families,” said General Salami, adding that simultaneously Muslim nations were silent and plunged into the “deep ignorance”.       

Since 45 years ago with the onset of the Islamic Revolution, the arrogant countries have turned the region into “a battlefield,” the major general lamented, stressing that this is the first time that Islam has shown its influence in equations and developments in the world.
 
The general was indirectly referring to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran in September 1980 with the instigation of the West, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, etc. 

Pointing to the speech of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei with students on Wednesday, two days ahead of National Student Day, Salami touched on enemies’ efforts to deviate the minds and hearts of Iranian youth, adding that the media propaganda is run to connect the minds of the youth with the insidious history of America's dark era.