Former Iranian Minister of Defense Gen. Hossein Dehghan, currently an advisor for defense affairs to Supreme Leader Khamenei, said in a June 20, 2019 interview on Al-Nujaba TV (Iraq) that the Americans are fully aware that their assets in the Middle East can be “obliterated” by Iran’s missiles and that they know that a war in the region would not be a “walk in the park.” He said that the behavior of Trump and the U.S. is an indication that they fear the break out of war because they cannot gain global legal legitimacy or assemble an international coalition for such a war. General Dehghan also said that in the event of a war in the region, Iran would uproot Israel and totally erase it from the face of the Earth, and that America would find itself in the “garbage bin of history.” He expressed the opinion that such a war will not take place because of how powerful Iran is.
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