(MEMRI) Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said on Aug. 30: "Today, Iran has attained such status that the superpowers have surrendered to it." On Aug. 24, the website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei published a poster titled "The Iron Fist," featuring a fist made of missiles, jets, ships, and tanks. The text on the poster states: "Those who levelled sanctions against us yesterday are dying today, because Iran has become the region's foremost military power....The entire nation unites as a solid fist." On July 15, the Javan website, affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed that Iran has become a superpower with standing equal to that of the U.S. Yadollah Javani, senior advisor to Ayatollah Khamenei in the IRGC, wrote on July 27: "The truth is that the time of this superpower has passed, and America must accept the facts of the new world....[This new world order] includes the acknowledgment of a nuclear-fuel-cycle-Iran with decisive deterrent capabilities in the region."
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