'Enemy has made numerous mistakes and miscalculations about Iran'

Iran's advancement in different fields of science, technology and industry while it is under the toughest sanctions of the West has become a nightmare for the arrogant powers and its enemies, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami said, Fars agency reported.

Addressing IRGC commanders and personnel in the Northwestern province of Ardabil on Tuesday, General Salami said Iran's joining the club of the limited number of the countries which have mastered "the space, nuclear and biological sciences and cutting our dependence on the aliens has become a big nightmare for the West".

He reiterated that mastering the aforementioned fields of science, technology and industry "is deemed as a great capability", and further added that the economies of 15 neighboring countries are all dependent on Iran.

"The enemy has made numerous mistakes and miscalculations about us and we have knocked out the enemy on all scenes," he said.

The IRGC lieutenant commander noted that the enemy and its regional proxies and allies act more cautiously and carefully when dealing with Iran now "because they are afraid of Iran and do not want to make the smallest mistake in dealing with Iran".

"That's why our enemies harness each other so that the Iranian nation does not again make them ill-famed in the region as a result of a single mistake," General Salami explained.

Salami's remarks came after the rift between the US and Israel widened over the latter's growing war rhetoric against Iran.

In mid-September, the US administration officials totally rejected the idea of the redline game as proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her country does not know any redline for diplomacy and talks with Iran.

The gap between Israel and the United States on Iran further widened as Netanyahu insisted on a "redline" from Washington, a few days after White House officials rejected his similar demand, saying that they don't know any redline for talks with Iran.

The United States' top officials rejected the so-called "red lines" as political grandstanding that might leave them at a strategic disadvantage.

On CNN and on NBC's "Meet the Press," Netanyahu maintained that telling Iran there is a definite line it must step back from would serve as a preemptive and effective deterrent.

"If they know there's a point, a stage in the enrichment or other nuclear activities that they cannot cross because they'll face consequences, I think they'll actually not cross it," he told CNN's "State of the Union."

"It's important to put a redline before them, and that's something we should discuss with the United States."

But his call for a change of tack and stiffer warnings from Washington was rejected by Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations.

"We think that there's still considerable time for this pressure to work," Rice said, refusing to acknowledge the redlines argument.

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta further highlighted policy differences in an interview published in September.

Relations between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama are viewed as frosty, and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta further highlighted policy differences in an interview published in mid September.

"The fact is, look, presidents of the United States, prime ministers of Israel or any other country - leaders of these countries don't have, you know, a bunch of little redlines that determine their decisions," Panetta said.

"What they have are facts that are presented to them about what a country is up to, and then they weigh what kind of action is needed to be taken in order to deal with that situation," he told Foreign Policy magazine.

"That's the real world. Redlines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner."

Israeli media revealed in mid September that Obama refused to meet Netanyahu in New York later in the same month.

With Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney accusing Obama of being a poor friend to Israel, Netanyahu has denied that he is meddling in US politics ahead of elections on November 6.

Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee who lost to Obama in 2008, said there was a clear gap between Israel and the White House on where the redline lies.

But US administration officials totally rejected the idea of the redline game. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her country does not know any redline for diplomacy and talks with Iran.


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