Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has turned into the "most competent military power" in the Middle East. Lieutenant General Reza Mohammad-Soleimani said that IRGC is fully capable of defending the Islamic Revolution against "any kind of threats". "The IRGC is a living phenomenon which is rooted in the Islamic Revolution and which defends the Islamic Republic of Iran against 'hard', 'semi-hard' and 'soft' threats," he was quoted by IRNA as saying.
Mohammad-Soleimani noted that an IRGC initiative to organize 31 provincial corps across Iran has considerably enhanced the country's defense capabilities. The Iranian commander stated that the IRGC has made great achievements in defense industry to a point that it uses indigenous military hardware.
Iran fought an eight year war to a draw against Saddam's Iraq. Sammy's financial shortskies after that war were why he invaded Kuwait. The U.S. fought the 4th Largest Army in the World™ and threw its sorry ass out of Kuwait in 100 hours flat. When Sammy managed to convince himself that he musta been seeing things and we actually ended up invading Iraq, we whupped him in 14 days.
Admittedly there have been a few years since the Iran-Iraq war. Iran does in fact produce quite a bit of its own armament. They've been concentrating on missile technology, that didn't turn out to be a war winner in 1989. And they've still got the IRGC, the main purpose of which seems to have been to burn off extra population. They haven't actually fought a war and won it, and some of the "triumphs" they've hooted about have been proven to be faked.
If you're actually that good, you don't have to fake it.