Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the IRGC, August 2008

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Mohammad Ali Jafari
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Mohammad Ali Jafari
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“The Guards have recently tested a naval weapon which I can say with certainty that the enemy’s [U.S.] ships would not be safe within the range of 300 kilometers. Without any doubt we will send them to the depths of the sea.”Nazila Fathi, “Iran Escalates Military Rhetoric,” New York Times, August 5, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/world/africa/05iht-05iran.15003614.html.

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Anti-American
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IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)

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