Persian → English transcript

For three hundred years, Iran

has not attacked

any country. There is a strait. This is Greater Tunb Island. This is Lesser

Tunb Island.

Close to it. Abu Musa.

This is our coast. For example, this is Lengeh. This is Lengeh.

They form a triangle. The deepest part of the Persian Gulf…

- Here the corridor has gone.- Here it is.- Right.- One…

there is a corridor from this side.- It has turned back. - A corridor comes back

from this side. Meaning Greater Tunb

if you lose this, you have lost the Strait of Hormuz. If you lose these islands,

you lose Greater Tunb, the inlet and the outlet.

- You have lost the Strait of Hormuz.- Completely. If you lose Abu Musa,

you have lost Siri too. If you lose Siri, you lose your gas wells.

Our youth must know that, Iranians must know how important these are.

When we go through hell and high water,

when we go through fire and water to serve these young people, we say,

come on, come on, we will take you to the islands, Look at the islands, look

at their importance. If you lose this,

you will lose your gas and oil too.

You will also lose your trade in the Persian Gulf.

Now if the islands fall into the hands of the Emirates and Israel, what then?

What happens? First of all,

they will not fall into their hands.

As long as there is one honorable Iranian, God willing, this will not happen.

This force that exists now,

what is the difference between it and the one we call a strategic force?

This force is born from the Iranian nation itself.

Its people, its training, its equipment, are all native.

It remains something native. Courage is very important.

Look, during the eight years of the Sacred Defense, what did we have at sea?

We did not allow any of the interests of our dear nation, neither we nor

our dear Navy, the Navy of the Army,

we did not allow the interests of our dear nation to be something that anyone would

want to violate. We stood on our own feet. Our trust is in God. And whatever

we say we built, we did this, we did that, it means God helped.

None of it was from us. Keep this in mind.

Wherever you hear something about me, say,“ We had it, we did it,” we did not do it,

God did.— It is God’s work.— Yes. And praise be to God,

today we have reached a point, we crossed the Persian Gulf. No matter how

much pressure they put on us,

we are like this dough that they keep punching,

it just gets tougher.— It takes on a shape.— It takes shape, it gets tougher.

That is how it is now.

They keep putting so much pressure on us,

and we just keep getting tougher.