Israel will be the sole loser of any hostile move against Iran – Iranian officials

Tabnak – As the war in Syria is moving toward its final stages with the victorious face of the Syrian government emerging, Israel has intensifies its threats and activities against Damascus and its main ally, Iran. Iranian officials, however, warn that Tel Aviv would be the main loser of any hostile activity against the Islamic Republic.

In this vein, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Zionist regime of Israel will be eliminated and the entire occupied Palestinian territories will be retaken if it embarks on starting a new war.

The IRGC’s second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the first national conference on the “defensive and security architecture of the Islamic Establishment” in Tehran on Monday.

“We announce that if Israel takes any step to start a new war, without a doubt, this war would be the same war, which would end in its elimination and the occupied territories will be retaken,” Salami said.

The remarks came after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week that Iran would face consequences for any threat against Tel Aviv. During a public speech on January 21, Netanyahu said that Israel was “acting against Iran and the Syrian forces” that were helping what he called “the Iranian aggression.”

"Whoever threatens to destroy us will bear the full responsibility," he said.

Meanwhile, another Iranian official has warned of Israel's warmongering policies in the Middle East, saying the regime's acts of provocation pose a serious threat to regional security.

"The Zionists (Israelis) will be the main loser of [their] warmongering [policies] in the region," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Parliament speaker's special advisor on international affairs, said in a Sunday meeting with Russian Ambassador to Tehran Levan Dzhagaryan.

Amir-Abdollahian added that Israel's provocative actions and its violation of Syria's territory are the main threats to regional security. Stressing the importance of improving Tehran-Moscow relations to boost security in the region, the Iranian official said the Islamic Republic and Russia have successfully cooperated in the fight against terrorism in Syria.

It should be noted that after the latest wave of Israel's aerial attacks in Syria’s south in the early hours of last Monday, Damascus once again wrote protest letters to the United Nations, urging the world body to take a decisive step and put an end to the Tel Aviv regime’s acts of aggression against its territory, saying the regime’s hostile strikes were aimed at “prolonging” the crisis in the Arab country.