Mohammad Towlaei, the former deputy coordinator of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, told the Defense Press website: “The collapse of the United States and Israel is something that, as our martyred Imam said, God has decreed. God has promised victory, and this will be granted to the Iranian nation through the steadfastness, resilience, and the resistance of armed forces and people in the streets.”

Towlaei added: “Because we are the children of Ashura, we have more motivation to defend ourselves and stand firm in our principled, logical, legal, and lawful positions; therefore, we are faced with an unequal equation in political and legal terms with the United States.”