IRGC Chief Says as Iran Unveils ‘Den of Spies’ Murals
TEHRAN (Kayhan Intl) -- Iran on Saturday unveiled new murals on the walls of the former U.S. embassy as Tehran prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the capture of the "den of spies.”
The message of the paintings is one of a violent U.S. that is thirsty for war and bent on tightening its grip on the world, yet weakening despite its military might.
The new murals — mainly painted in white, red and blue, the colors of the U.S. flag — were unveiled by Maj. Gen. Hussein Salami, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), at the former mission turned museum.
One of them showed a crumbling Statue of Liberty, its right torch-bearing arm having broken off.
Another depicted the triangle of the Eye of Providence, the symbol used on the back of the U.S. dollar bill, in a sea of blood in which skulls are floating.
A third showed the American Global Hawk drone that was shot down by Iran in June over the Strait of Hormuz, with bats flying out of it.
One of the other murals featured the Great Seal of the United States with a Star of David in it. Instead of an olive branch and arrows, the eagle is clutching bullets and syringes in his talons.
Next to it another work showed an Iran Air plane that was shot down by an American warship over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, with white doves flying out of it.
As many as 290 people were killed in the criminal act which Washington has called a "mistake” and for which Iran has for years demanded an apology.
During his speech, General Salami reiterated Iran’s grievances against the U.S.
He said the United States is the only country to have used nuclear weapons, twice in Japan in 1945, and yet is blocking other countries, especially Iran, from benefiting from a civil nuclear program.
He also said that Washington is lying when it claims to support human rights and democracy, adding it backs nearly "all dictators” on Earth.
Tehran is preparing to mark on Monday the 40th anniversary of the embassy takeover by Iranian students.
On November 4, 1979, less than nine months after the toppling of Iran’s American-backed shah, students overran the complex to demand the United States hand over the ousted ruler after he was admitted to a U.S. hospital.
Tensions have escalated again between the two countries ever since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal last year and reimposed unilateral sanctions.
General Salami said the United States has for decades been stuck in "a downward spiral" and its decades-long failure to score a political victory proves that the global resistance front is growing.
"For years, the Americans have not been able to strike a balance between the costs and the outcomes of their measures, even in the economic field. They are stuck in a downward spiral and the world has for decades and years witnessed no recording of a political victory for them," he said.
On the contrary, he added, the resistance is thriving and actively expanding its borders.
The IRGC chief said Washington has played "either directly or indirectly" the main role in all major wars across the Muslim world in the past four decades.
The U.S. has been the world's largest arms exporter and its interventions have killed a total of 8.5 million people around the globe, he noted, saying America is the first regime which obtained weapons of mass destruction and the only country that used them twice.
"The U.S. speaks of human rights while it disregards these same rights in all parts of the world and violates them, like attacks on wedding ceremonies in Afghanistan and overnight raids on the homes of the people of Iraq," the IRGC chief said, naming the notorious prisons of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib as more examples of America's human rights violations.
The U.S. regime, he pointed out, speaks of freedom and democracy while all dictators across the globe are its "chess pieces."
"In Afghanistan, they (the Americans) created terrorist groups but they were forced to counter them. They themselves nurtured Daesh leader and were forced to eliminate him," he said.
"The world has become bigger than the U.S., and the U.S. is no longer the first in anything," Salami emphasized, adding "power, politics, logic and geography have been distributed and today's world is no longer a power hierarchy ruled by a government at the top."
He also said that in addition to America's enemies, its traditional and long-time friends are no longer acting based on its political priorities and preferences either.
General Salami said, "We first talk to the world using the language of logic,” but the country’s missile stockpiles are even more than necessary for countering the enemy’s aggression.
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