TEHRAN - The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says that 31 years of trials and tribulations have turned the Islamic Republic of Iran into a major power.

Iran’s history over the past century is riddled with many unpleasant memories of the imperialism and domination of the United States and Britain, but weathering all those storms has made Iran more powerful than ever, the ISNA news agency quoted Brigadier General Hossein Salami as saying on Friday.
Since the very first days of the Islamic Revolution, the United States and Britain have been plotting against Iran in order to restore the massive flow of wealth they had received before the revolution, he stated.
They did not want an independent state to emerge in the region because they knew that the anti-imperialist policies of the Islamic Republic would set an example for other regional countries, he noted.
Salami said that breaking the yoke of imperialism in order to make Iran an independent country was the principal aim of the Islamic Revolution.
And the era of one superpower ruling the entire globe in a unipolar world order is over, he noted.
The time has come for the U.S. to totally revise its policies toward the rest of the international community and accept the concept of being a member of an egalitarian world, he added