This person’s comments have their roots in her lack of understanding of military issues, Brigadier General Jazayeri said in response to Haley, who claimed that the Islamic Republic has supplied Yemen with ballistic missiles.

“If the Americans had been informed of the high level of the Yemeni resistance’s missile technology, they would have refused to make such absurd comments,” the commander noted.  

During her press conference on Thursday, Haley appeared standing before parts of a ballistic missile that she claimed Iran delivered to Houthis in Yemen, who then fired it at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia last month.

In a tweet earlier on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had likened Haley’s speech to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s claim in 2003 that Iraq possessed WMD.

Powell’s 2003 speech to the UN laid out the Bush administration’s case for a war in Iraq. Powell in 2016 called the speech “a great intelligence failure”.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo also rejected Haley’s claim as “baseless” and said the accusations are aimed at covering up the Saudi war crimes in Yemen with the US complicity.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by a coalition led by the Saud regime for nearly three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Over 14,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.

In remarks released on Friday, Brigadier General Jazayeri offered his congratulations over recent victories of the resistance forces and the liberation of last strongholds of Daesh terror group in Iraq and Syria, saying the Takfiri militants were mercenaries hired by the US.

“The US and the International Zionism, aiming to damage the bright image of the dear Islam, implemented their sinister plan through forming terrorist and Takfiri groups…,” he noted.

The commander further emphasized that the Washington and Tel Aviv regimes destroyed economies of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen, and shed the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and spared no efforts to portray a dark face of Islam.

Although the US has faced defeat in its proxy war in the region, the US government, as the sponsor of this devastating war, is responsible for all the destruction, killings and damages to the targeted people and countries, Brigadier General Jazayeri said.

“We are waiting for a day when… this Satanic regime would face the most severe punishment as a war criminal,” he added.

In a message to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday morning, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force Major General Soleimani declared that the Daesh terrorist group’s rule has come to an end with the accomplishment of a mission to liberate Syria’s eastern city of Al-Bukamal, near the Iraqi border.

On November 19, Daesh terrorists were flushed out of their last stronghold in Syria’s Al-Bukamal. The city’s liberation marked an end to the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate it had declared in 2014.

Daesh militants made swift advances in northern and western Iraq over the summer of 2014, after capturing large areas of Syria.

But the timely support by Iran helped Syria and Iraq fight off Daesh. In addition, the formation of military units by volunteers in Iraq, known as Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Units, blunted the edge of Daesh offensive and later made the terror group withdraw from the territories it had occupied.