A man looks at a banner depicting US President Donald Trump displayed in front of the Zolfaghar and Zolghadr ballistic missiles exhibited at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on August 2, 2026.
PressTV.co.uk – Sept 13, 2026
Iran’s acting defense minister says the Islamic Republic would be far more technologically advanced if another war were to break out, dismissing repeated US threats as lacking any “operational value.”
Brigadier General Majid Ibn al-Reza made the remarks in a meeting with managers of the Defense Ministry’s industrial organizations on Sunday in response to recurring threats and rhetoric by some American officials.
“Some American officials think that they can change our will or intimidate the Islamic Republic by repeating threats, but they are gravely mistaken,” he said.
He added that the enemy’s persistence in making such threats does not show strength, but it is instead a sign of paralysis in intelligence and analytical assessments and, ultimately, the erosion of its rationality.
Ibn al-Reza emphasized that the enemy must understand this “very simple and clear” reality that it should not speak to Iran in a language of threats.
He reiterated that the Islamic Republic places no value on such threats, describing them as “political messaging or political statements” lacking genuine military credibility.
Addressing regional developments and the outcomes of the US and Israeli policies, the acting defense minister said, “The developments and realities we are witnessing in the region today are the result of their wrong policies and miscalculations.”
He said Iran has never posed a threat to neighboring countries or regional nations and has consistently sought to distinguish between friends and adversaries, while it has clearly expressed this rational approach in practice and in various situations.
He noted that Iran has displayed only a small portion of its actual capabilities in the defense industry, emphasizing that efforts to strengthen the country’s defense sector continue unabated.
Ibn al-Reza affirmed that Iran is currently “stronger, more united and more vigilant” than at any other point in its history, adding that the country’s defense and technological capabilities have continued to advance based on lessons learned from experience and the battlefield.
He also expressed Iran’s full readiness to counter threats by relying on its own indigenous capabilities and independent strategies.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran relies on its own will, capabilities, and indigenous capacities to secure its security and defend its interests,” the acting defense minister pointed out.
Ibn al-Reza’s comments came as top White House advisers have raised privately with US President Donald Trump the prospect that the war could drag on through the remainder of his term, a message at odds with Trump’s public assurances of a swift victory, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The United States and Israel launched their illegal war of aggression against Iran on February 28.
Forty days later, on April 8, the enemies were forced to accept a ceasefire amid Iran’s resistance, successful retaliatory operations, and a powerful grip on the Strait of Hormuz.
In July, the United States conducted waves of deadly air raids on Iran and imposed a naval blockade of the country in violation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic, signed on June 17, to end the war.
In response, the Iranian armed forces launched devastating strikes against strategic American targets across West Asia and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all traffic.
> Iran will be ‘far more advanced technologically’ in any new war: Acting defense minister
> Apart from adding advanced Russian and Chinese weapons to its arsenal, Iran also seized advanced US drones. Providing Iranian scientists with a wealth of insights through reverse engineering, to be incorporated into Iran’s own weapons systems
Those with some form of memory might think:
1. American stuff is supposed to be shit, so why “reverse engineer” it?
2. Russian and Chinese stuff is supposed to be the bestest in the world (apart from eye rainian stuff), so why “reverse engineer” it?
3. The eye rainians are supposed to have “seized” numerous “drones” already, so why is this one so great?
4. The eye rainians are supposed to be the greatest “engineers” since the ancient egyptians, so why would their wondrous “scientists” need any hints from the pwoor blind American scientists?
5. Eye ran is either supposed to be running the “war” on sticky backed plastic that “outperforms” million dollar systems, or it’s definitely and absolutely gonna be “far more advanced technologically” at some point. Which is it?
You might also thing about a drone. It’s a lump of plastic with circuit boards. You can’t “reverse engineer” it beyond working out how to mimic it with another lump of plastic and another circuit board. What you cannot do is somehow magically suck the contents of the circuit board out and “incorporate” it into your lump of plastic. And even if you could – which you can’t – why would you if it’s supposed to be shit?