IRGC marks sacred defense week, warns of decisive response to aggression

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commemorated the Sacred Defense Week and the 46th anniversary of the beginning of the eight-year imposed war, highlighting the Iranian Armed Forces’ readiness to deliver a decisive response to any aggression.

Sacred defense shaped Iran’s path toward self-reliance: Deputy defense minister

Iran’s Acting Defense Minister Brigadier General Majid Ibn al-Reza has said the eight-year Sacred Defense was more than a historical period of resistance, describing it as a school of experience, self-confidence, sacrifice and responsibility that shaped the country’s subsequent defense path.

Holy Defense Week

Holy Defense Week

Imam Khomeini's significant role in managing imposed war and sacred defense

In a videoconference with the participants of a ceremony honoring the veterans of the Sacred Defense (Sep. 21, 2020), the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei described the leadership and command of the late Imam Khomeini as being very sensitive and amazing from the beginning to the end of the Sacred Defense.

Defense Week

Defense Week

Iranians broke pomposity of super powers of east and west in imposed war: Imam Khomeini

Forty-five years ago, on September 17, 1980, the Ba'athist regime of Iraq tore up the 1975 Algiers Agreement, a pivotal treaty that had delineated the border with Iran along the thalweg of the strategic Arvand River and ushered in a brief period of détente between the two neighbors.