“We warn the enemy not to miscalculate the Iranian nation’s power and will, otherwise, it will have high costs,” General Rashid said, addressing an open session of the parliament in Tehran on Saturday.

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He underlined Iran’s missile and air defense power to defend the country’s people, and said, “The reason for enemy’s concern, pressure and pretexts against our pin-pointing missiles with precision-striking power and capability to hit the warships is that it sees Iran as an independent owner of missile power.”

General Rashid also underscored Iran’s influential role in the region, saying that the U.S. and Israel are angry at the country for this strategy and for enjoying two components of power which lead to deterrence.

The commander of the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, warned the country’s enemies that their miscalculations about Iran’s power and resolve will be costly for them.

“Iran defines its defense policies within the framework of its national interests and independent from the interests of foreign and hegemonic powers,” he said.

Noting that peace and stability in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz are tied to Iran’s national interests, the major general warned the country’s enemies to avoid making miscalculations about Iran’s power, otherwise, it would be “costly” for them.

In relevant remarks on Friday, Head of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Public Relations Department Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said that American troops dispatched to the Persian Gulf from home thousands of miles away are not motivated enough to fight a war with Iran and as a result are shivering with fear.

“We are today witnessing American soldiers in the Persian Gulf with shivering hands and pale faces standing behind a mountain of equipment living like robots in the face of the will of the progenies of this nation,” Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said in a ceremony on commemorating the 39th anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr from the military of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain.