Quds commander: Imposed war completely discredited US, accelerated collapse of Zionist regime

In an extensive interview on Monday night with IRIB, the Quds commander said, “The third imposed war discredited America. The trend of the collapse of the Zionist regime has gained momentum.”

General Qaani stressed that the roots of the resistance in the region go back to the early days of the Islamic Revolution, when Imam Khomeini ordered the formation of resistance nuclei across the region. 

After him, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, continued this path with firmness, turning these nuclei into powerful resistance movements that eventually united to form the axis of resistance, a development that has deeply alarmed the United States, global arrogance, and the Zionist regime ever since.

“Today, America knows very well, and the Zionist regime understands even better, that the force standing firmly against them in the harshest conditions, refusing to leave the battlefield, is the resistance,” Qaani said.

“From Operation Al-Aqsa Flood until today, despite unprecedented pressure, maximum destruction, and the most horrific crimes in beloved Palestine and Lebanon, not a single resistance group abandoned the field. This steadfastness has terrified the enemies,” he said.

The Quds Force commander revealed that resistance groups had made their own decision long before the war to stand at the forefront against the United States in order to protect the Islamic Republic.

“When these resistance brothers felt danger, they gathered and said: ‘In the battle with America, we must take the lead and not let the Islamic Republic face problems.’ This was their own decision, without anyone even asking them a single word,” he noted.

General Qaani praised the performance of the entire axis of resistance in the recent war, saying it “shone powerfully.”

He particularly highlighted Hezbollah’s role, noting that the Lebanese resistance movement fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Iran for 104 days.

“Hezbollah cannot be dismantled. No one can stand against Hezbollah of Lebanon,” he said.

“Hezbollah is the entire Shia community and a significant portion of the non-Shia community of Lebanon. Everything you have seen from Hezbollah is only the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Qaani further stated that the American-Zionist enemy has lost all credibility wherever it confronted the resistance.

He pointed to the Bab al-Mandab Strait as one of the resistance’s winning cards, saying it is “like wax in the hands of the boys of Hezbollah, Ansarullah, and Yemen.”

He revealed that some of the most advanced American warships intending to cross the Red Sea during the war spent nearly two weeks going back and forth between Yemen and Jeddah before ultimately not daring to pass through.

Qaani also praised Iran’s negotiating team, saying that as soon as the Zionist regime launched its aggression against Lebanon, the Iranian side dealt with the enemy and the mediators with full authority.

“Steadfastness in the Lebanon issue proved that the men of the battlefield and diplomacy are of the resistance kind,” he concluded.

The remarks once again highlighted the strategic depth and unbreakable unity of the axis of resistance, which continues to change regional equations in favor of the oppressed despite all pressures and aggressions by the United States and the Zionist regime.

The illegal US-Israeli aggression on Iran began on February 28. In response, the Iranian armed forces targeted sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region and restricted transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

On April 8, forty days into the war, an Islamabad-brokered ceasefire went into effect. However, the first round of Tehran-Washington negotiations failed to reach an agreement, with the latter imposing an inhumane “naval blockade” of Iran.

Meanwhile, both the United States and Israel violated the temporary truce, prompting Iran to launch retaliatory strikes and close the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels.