Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the IRGC, September 25, 2013

Date
Sep. 25, 2013
Name of Author
Mohammad Ali Jafari
Body

“[T]he Islamic Revolution is in good conditions and today the Islamic Revolution’s security is at its peak, while the enemies of the Islamic Iran hatched devilish plots to undermine security and create security problems, but, thanks God, they could not achieve success in any field.”“IRGC Commander: Majority of Iranians Fervently Supporting Islamic Establishment,” Fars News Agency, September 25, 2013, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920703001436.

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