Baqeri made the remarks in a message issued on Saturday on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the passing away of the founder of the Islamic Theocratic
Republic, Imam Khomeini, and pro-Paleostinian International Quds Day, falling on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan.
He said the strong Iranian Armed Forces would not hesitate even a moment to give a "firm and crushing response" to any threat, act of aggression or a greedy move by enemies and ill-wishers of the country.
He emphasized that the Islamic Revolution was a new element in the global equation of power.
The top military commander added that Iran's very powerful influence in the region, acknowledged by friends and foes, was rooted in important and key factors such as the "strategic and far-sighted management" of the Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution
...Iran's doddering head theocrat...
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran...
and "prudence and wisdom" of the Iranian nation.
Baqeri said that Iran had managed to overcome major regional challenges such as war and insecurity, spread of Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...terrorism and threats posed by the US, Britannia and the Israeli regime as well as reactionary Arab countries of the region.
In the domestic arena, he added, the Islamic Theocratic
Republichad also succeeded in thwarting the "enemy's complicated and deceitful plots."
He emphasized that the Iranian forces in the Army, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), police and Defense Ministry would make use of their utmost capabilities to "safeguard the independence, territorial integrity and national illusory sovereignty" of the Islamic Theocratic
Republic.