“In the international arena, the United States has experienced ups and downs so that it took utmost power at the fall of the Soviet Union, but the enlightenment of the Iranian nation faced this arrogant power with defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, [and] Palestine and now it is suffering a decline of power,” Ali Larijani told the parliament on Wednesday.
Larijani said the US has lost its power over other countries, noting how Arab revolutions, following Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979, have frustrated the colonialist power.
"The fall of the US hegemony is visible in the comments made by the country’s officials,” he stated.
The top lawmaker pointed out the Islamic Republic’s influential role in the region and the world, noting the West’s attempts to hinder the progress of the Iranian nation through “adventurism in the missile and nuclear fields.”
Larijani described Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and the Palestinian resistance as the “diamond triangle compassing the Mideast developments,” saying the trio has turned into the axis of Muslims world’s resistance against colonialism.
He referred to the defeat of Israel’s heavily armed military in its offensives against Hezbollah and the Gaza Strip in recent years as part of the “brilliant” capabilities of the “diamond triangle.”
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