“Iran’s legitimate rights and interests of people of Iran are not bargainable,” Shamkhani said in a meeting of Iranian prosecutors in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday.

He also warned the US and the European governments that if they stick to their current policies in the hope of forcing Iran to retreat, they will certainly achieve nothing but regret.

Shamkhani denounced the US government’s policy of maximum pressures whose objective is to undermine the axis of resistance, saying Washington has employed the tools of fourth-generation warfare to sap the strength of independent nations and erode their structures and elements of power in order to trigger a breakdown from inside.

He then hailed the upcoming parliamentary election in Iran as another manifestation of democracy and a source of power, saying the polls will be held more magnificently than ever in a secure and safe manner and will once again stymie the hostile plots to turn the election into a threat.

He also took a swipe at the US and its allies for taking advantage of the situation in Iraq and Lebanon and of the legitimate economic and social demands of Iraqi and Lebanese citizens to cause insecurity and instability according to the fourth-generation warfare.

The Iranian official expressed confidence that the Iraqi people and religious authorities will once again thwart the plots of the US and its regional allies in the same way that they defeated the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.

In comments in November 2018, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the diminishing influence of the US government in all areas of power, saying Washington has even discredited “liberal democracy” which is known as the basis of Western civilization.

There is a consensus among major international experts that the US power is dwindling in all areas, the Leader underscored, adding that, conversely, the Iranian nation is moving forward and has a bright future.

Ayatollah Khamenei also branded the US government as the loser of confrontation with the Islamic Republic over the past 40 years, saying the fact in the confrontation between the US and Iran is that “the victorious side in this challenge has been the Islamic Republic of Iran and the loser has been the US.”

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In an article published on Monday, Ali Shamkhani said three open admissions from top US officials in the past two months have laid bare a series of facts to which the American authorities had not dared to confess before.

After the Yemeni Ansarullah Movement’s attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities and the kingdom’s push for a response, the US officials explicitly rejected Riyadh’s call and made it clear that it was Saudi Arabia being attacked, not the US, Shamkhani added.

He also noted that the US’ successive political and military defeats in the region forced the American authorities to admit to the failure of military presence in the Middle East which has cost Washington eight trillion dollars.

As Turkey recently began a military operation in northern Syria, the US left its Kurdish allies alone, admitted that it had waged a bloody war in Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction, and acknowledged that military involvement in the Middle East was the worst decision ever made in the history of the US, Shamkhani added.

The US government appears to have come to the conclusion that the equation of power and politics in the Middle East has changed, and that the US can no more claim to be a dominant power in the international order, the Iranian official stressed, saying Washington has now two options: either to pretend to be a superpower by incurring huge expenses, or to adopt a realistic policy, accept the realities and save itself from the costs of the exposed plot.

The defeat of the strategic US projects has become clear to the world, projects such as the disintegration of the Middle East, the Deal of Century, regime change in Iran, making Saudi Arabia the region’s top power, the war on Yemen, peace in Afghanistan, or the crisis in Syria, Shamkhani added.

The US government’s admission of defeat has made many West Asian countries, even those that once paved the way for the US military presence and hosted the American forces, acknowledge that “the Middle East is a safer place without the US,” he concluded.

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