"They tried as best as they could to sabotage a small part which we import so that our missiles would not reach their target and explode mid-air," Fars news agency reports, quoting the Guards’ aerospace commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
"But they couldn’t do a damn thing because we had seen this coming from the start and had reinforced this sector," he adds, accusing Iran’s "enemies" of sabotage without naming any specific country.
Earlier this month the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported that the administration of US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
was pushing a secret program aimed at sabotaging Iranian rockets and missiles.
It said Washington was trying to "slip faulty parts and materials into Iran’s aerospace supply chains" as part of a campaign to undercut Tehran’s military.
Iran reined in most of its nuclear program under a landmark 2015 deal with major powers in return for sanctions relief, but has continued to develop its ballistic missile technology.