Enemy retreating in sign of victory for revolution: IRGC

Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hussein Salami says Iran is advancing while the enemy is retreating from its position.

"The enemy is retreating and leaving the battlefield while the Islamic Revolution is marching forward and this is a sign of victory,” Salami said at a conference in Tehran on the role of the media. 

"Today, they (Americans) admit that they have reached the point where the more they advance, the more they go downwards. A power’s lack of strategy is the beginning of its gradual death and this is what has happened in the US.”

General Salami also touched on the enemy’s propaganda modus operandi which spews falsehood, saying Iran’s media outlets shoulder a heavy burden in giving a voice to the oppressed nations.

"The enemy’s news network is similar to a spider web; it has a complicated appearance but at the same time it’s very flimsy,” Salami said.

Hailing Iran’s journalists, the IRGC chief said it is not important that the enemy holds a monopoly on most aspects of news dissemination, because "you discredit the enemy’s media outlets by showing the truth.”

"The enemies tell lies and engaged in oppression, but whoever other than you conveys to the world the voices of the oppressed Palestinian and Yemeni children from beneath rubbles?" Salami said.

The commander said the Iranian media’s philosophy is "defending the oppressed and putting ourselves in harm’s way to save the lives of others.”

"This philosophy will definitely emerge victorious,” he said,

The event featured honoring Press TV news anchor Marzieh Hashemi, who was jailed in the US without charge for two weeks in January and later freed amid a public outcry.

PressTV-Marzieh Hashemi in Iran after days of torment in US

Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi arrives in Iran after days of torment in the US.

Abdol-Ali Ali-Asgari, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), said the Islamic Republic has turned into a great and invincible power. He said the enemy's policies in the region have reached a deadlock and the US is in decline.

Tensions have increased between Iran and the US in recent months amid a spate of suspicious attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and Yemen’s retaliatory operations against Saudi Arabia.

The US and its allies have used their propaganda arms to mainly blame the attacks on Iran which has sternly warned of "false flag” operations in order to produce a trigger for likely confrontations.

Western media outlets have been adamant to link the September 14 missile and drone attack on Saudi oil facilities to Iran without ever questioning their governments' account of the claim.

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