[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian commander has dismissed the Pentagon chief's call for regime change in the Islamic Theocratic Republicas a "ridiculous dream", saying Iran would respond to US officials' nonsensical talks.
James Mattis on Monday described Iran "the most destabilizing influence in the Middle East", saying a regime change would be necessary before the US and Iran could have substantially positive relations.
On Thursday, Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said the Islamic Theocratic
Republicwas not perturbed by the remarks.
"The ridiculous dreams of the Americans about the overthrow of the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran is nothing more than disturbed delusions and we are not worried that they have preoccupied themselves in such a way," he said.
"We will respond to the nonsensical talks of the American authorities in the theaters of action," Jazayeri added without elaboration.
Addressing a high school journalism student in Mercer Island, a Seattle suburb, Mattis claimed that Iran was not really a democratic country and acted more like a "revolutionary movement" than a functional state.