Trump’s Ohio Rally Message: Iran’s military buildup linked to Obama’s ‘generosity’
“The capacity to manufacture individual combat weapons, including Kalashnikov, and mass combat arms like different machineguns has [increased] a 100 times in just 4 years,” General Dehqan said, addressing a crowd in the province of Qom on Monday.
While all eyes are on North Korea’s missile development and nuclear weapons threat, the Iranian military buildup goes practically unnoticed by America’s political establishment and their news-media cohorts.
Boasting to the Iranian people about how the government has focused on producing different military equipment, including ballistic and cruise missiles and has progressed in this area astonishingly, the Defense Minister Dehqan boldly claimed: “Today we have reached a level of power and capability in the missile field that we can produce missiles with any destruction and precision-striking power.”
General Dehqan also boasted that the military plans to bolster the country’s defense capabilities and the Armed Forces’ combat and operational power in the Iranian new year.
New weapons and equipment will be produced domestically in the new year and “the combat and operational power of the Armed Forces will [sic] boost remarkably,” General Dehqan said.
He also referred to the achievements and measures adopted last year, and said the defense industries’ capacity in area of warfare tools and weapons has increased . General Dehqan said that the defense industries have taken major steps in different missile, aerospace, telecommunications, electronics, optics and engineering fields in recent years.
Not forgetting to take a verbal potshot at Israel, Gen. Dehqan said that the international community must turn up the pressure on the Israelis to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and place the Jews’ nuclear activities under the surveillance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).