27 August 2014 (15:37 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Dhu l-Qa’da 1435/05 Shahrivar 1393/03 Ren-Shen (8th month) 4712
“Our response to this aggression will not be diplomatic. We will retaliate in the battlefield, but will not necessarily announce it. The enemy will see and understand it.”-Brigadier General Hossein Salami, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps
“The message of the Palestinian nation’s great victory in the Gaza war is a call on all Islamic governments and nations to practice full-scale resistance against the hegemonic and arrogant powers….the forefront is now arming the West Bank in the campaign against the usurper Zionist regime.”-statement from The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
“We believe the West Bank, too, should be armed just like Gaza and those who are interested in the fate of the Palestinians must work in this respect so that the pains and miseries of the Palestinian people will be decreased due to their mighty hands and the weakness of the Zionist enemy.”-Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
“Reinforcement of counter-terrorism teams and bomb defusing experts in Sistan and Balouchestan province is on our agenda……We will witness major changes and developments in these provinces by sealing the borders….A new [U.S. backed] terrorist group has started operation….and it has committed murders in the Southern parts of the country and they attack people under the cover of defending the Sunnis….”-Brigadier General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam, national police chief
“…different European and western countries and famous world industries….have collaborated with the Zionist regime and the U.S. efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear industry…..The Islamic Republic of Iran inevitably purchases certain parts from certain developing countries in the ‘East’, but unfortunately they are also sabotaging Iran’s nuclear industry. We might not be surprised by the ‘West’s’ sabotage operations against Iran…..but we are certainly stunned when such moves are made by the eastern countries…”-Ali Akbar Salehi, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran