The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Aerospace Force has launched several ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and an American destroyer participating in Washington’s illegal naval blockade against the Islamic Republic, forcing the vessels to flee.
The force staged the reprisal against the vessels “belonging to the child-killing, aggressor US military that had been harassing Iranian vessels and participating in the blockade,” the Corps said in a statement on Saturday.
“After sustaining damage and fearing another reprisal, the two warships were forced to flee the area of engagement,” it added.
‘US admission proof of IRGC’s capability’
The US Central Command, meanwhile, acknowledged that the vessels had come under “multiple” Iranian strikes.
Referring to the admission, the IRGC noted how the “aggressor enemy, which for years had swaggered around the region with false pride and hollow claims, was today forced to officially acknowledge that two US Navy warships had come under strikes.”
“CENTCOM's acknowledgment confirming this operation is living evidence of the enemy's strategic defeat and proof of the IRGC’s offensive capabilities.”
IRGC vows further responses
The IRGC, meanwhile, asserted that the Corps and the rest of Iran’s Armed Forces remained committed to defending the Islamic Republic’s sovereignty and security.
“Should the hostile and aggressive actions continue, the US regime must expect devastating responses from the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic. We stand stronger than ever. Victory belongs to the resilient people of Islamic Iran, while defeat and regret are the inevitable fate of the aggressors.”
The Corps expressed confidence that the bravery displayed by the Armed Forces alongside the strong nationwide popular support for the country’s defensive and retaliatory operations would “prevent the enemy from achieving its sinister objectives.”
Earlier, the IRGC had unveiled previously unreleased footage of its decisive action against non-compliant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, debunking the United States’ allegations of effectively supporting trespassing vessels’ transit through the waterway.
“The United States is the greatest threat to the security of regional countries and maritime trade; US support and escort operations are nothing but a big lie!” the IRGC had cautioned.
Prior to the release of the footage, the Corps had also announced striking three United States-linked vessels and three trespassing oil tankers in retaliation for earlier American attacks on Iranian tankers.
Also KCNA has published like a dozen articles in the past 4 days about a '15th National Conference of Teachers'. The article below describes that teachers should train all students to be 'strong talented persons who will make a contribution to the revolutionary practice'. The article describes a few teaching courses that teachers attended at the conference.
Participants in 15th National Conference of Teachers Take Short Course
Pyongyang, September 4 (KCNA) -- The participants in the 15th National Conference of Teachers received a short course on September 3.
Kim Sung Du, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Jon Sung Guk, vice-premier of the Cabinet, and Ri Yong Chol, minister of Education, gave them the short course.
The short course dealt with an issue arising in implementing to the letter the Party's educational policy of training all the students to be strong talented persons who will make a contribution to the revolutionary practice.
One of the lecturers stressed that our Party's policy on education is a great action program as it makes it possible to successfully attain the main goal of the educational revolution in the new century by bringing about a fresh turn in training talented persons and placing our education on a higher level in keeping with the requirement of the era for comprehensive development.
He also called on all the teachers to be fully aware that education requires conscience, devotion and patriotism, to fully prepare themselves as a true professional revolutionary with the noble traits which will always serve as an example of a genuine life, and to become a genuine teacher always respected and remembered by the disciples and a model teacher whose example is followed by students.
The short course also dealt with the ways of fundamentally eliminating the differences in educational level between the capital city and provinces and between urban and rural areas as required by the era of the comprehensive development of socialism.
The other lecturer stressed the need for all the educational workers to draw up scientific and workable plans for raising the educational level of the local and rural areas and carry out them to the letter, bearing in mind that it is their own important job to train talented persons who are capable of propelling the development of the relevant areas.
Another subject of the short course was to push ahead with the work to perfectly modernize all the educational foundations of the country.
A lecturer appealed to all the officials to be well aware of the important measures taken by the state to radically consolidate the material and technical foundations of the educational sector and fulfill their responsibility and duty in perfecting the educational foundations.
The participants heard the good deeds and experience of the units that have remained true to the Party's educational policy by dedicating their sincere efforts to strengthening the educational foundations as devoted parents of students and sponsors with a sense of duty that they share the same responsibility for education with educators. The short course referred to the measures to be taken to give full play to the social trait of treating teachers preferentially and render material and moral assistance to the educational sector. -0-
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