Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan scolded the US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter for his recent inflammatory remarks against Iran, saying the country’s Armed Forces are “fully prepared to give a crushing response to any aggressor.”
Brigadier General Dehqan’s remarks came in reaction to a statement by Carter who said in an interview with NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday that “the military option will certainly remain on the table if Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) fail to strike a final agreement”.
“Such remarks that are always being repeated by some US officials are passive and worthless,” Brigadier General Dehqan said.
“Alzheimer’s disease”, and said, “If Ashton Carter had remembered the past and the recent defeats of the US in the region and the world, he would have refrained from making such baseless remarks.”
The Iranian Defense Minister warned that its military forces is always any and all types of conditions ready to confront any hostile threat posed by aggressors and the country “will give its decisive response in the battlefield”.
“Such statements by US officials, especially at a time when the Islamic Republic is engaged in sensitive and complicated nuclear talks to get rid of baseless allegations leveled against it, are a sort of poisoning the logical atmosphere of the nuclear talks,” Brigadier General Dehqan said.