Iranian official says Tehran will resist ‘world-devouring America’

A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official has said the “comfort, welfare, and progress of regional nations” depend on the United States leaving the Gulf.

Hossein Noushabadi, director general for parliamentary affairs and law at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, told the state-linked ISNA news agency that “foreigners have always cast greedy eyes” upon the strategic maritime “asset”, which he described as “part of Iran’s identity and civilisation”, reports Al Jazeera.

Alluding to the country’s history of “bravery and sacrifice” in expelling “Portugal, the Netherlands, and England” from the Gulf, Noushabadi pledged that Iran will now resist “the military expeditions of the world-devouring America”.