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.

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.

IRGC, Army chiefs vow unified, swift response to slightest aggression against Iran

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The holy defense week reminds the names and memory of the martyrs

We had known our friends and enemies in the imposed war: Imam Khomeini

Iranian armed forces hold nationwide military parades to mark Sacred Defense Week

Iran’s armed forces are holding military parades across the country on the first day of Sacred Defense Week, which marks an eight-year war of aggression on Iran by then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.