Current and former Iranian officials are trying so hard to say that they remain strong that they are undercutting their own message with their eagerness.
The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said, "We have not been weakened and Iran's power has not diminished." The Supreme Leader's representative to the IRGC said, "Don't worry about the situation and know that we have had many ups and downs; but despite this, our situation on the resistance front has not changed at all." The former commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, Ahmad Vahidi, stated: "The Resistance Front will continue its work with strength; although it is possible that problems may arise from time to time, this path will continue with strength and there will be no wavering in the axis of resistance."
The Ayatollah Khamenei himself echoed the "we are strong" theme in his speech this morning, where he said:
I tell you that by the grace and power of God, the scope of resistance will encompass the entire region more than in the past.
This is the resistance, this is the resistance front: the more pressure you apply, the stronger it becomes, the more crimes you commit, the more motivated it becomes. The more you fight them, the wider it becomes, and I tell you, with the power of God, the scope of resistance will encompass the entire region more than ever before.
Ignorant analysts, unaware of the meaning of resistance, imagine that when resistance weakens, Islamic Iran will also weaken. I say that by the will of God, by the will of God Almighty, Iran is strong and powerful and will become even more powerful.
Those who are truly strong don't have to tell people they are strong every five minutes.
Behind the pretense of strength is chaos at the IRGC, as The Telegraph reports:
A furious blame game is unfolding among Iran’s armed forces over the fall of Bashar al-Assad, The Telegraph has learned.Officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said commanders of the elite military force were blaming each other “in angry terms” for the collapse of Assad’s regime and the loss of Iranian influence in the region.“The atmosphere is like something between almost punching each other, punching the walls, yelling at each other and kicking rubbish bins. They are blaming each other, and no one is taking responsibility,” one official from Tehran told The Telegraph.Iran spent billions of dollars propping up Assad’s regime after intervening in the Syrian civil war in the mid-2010s.....But the loss of Syria could be fatal because it was the main route for supplying Hezbollah, whose arsenal in southern Lebanon had projected Iranian military power directly to the border of Israel.“You need someone there to send arms to [but] they are either getting killed or escaping. Now the focus is on how to move forward from this impasse,” a second IRGC official told The Telegraph.
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