News - Middle East: A top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Islamic Republic of Iran managed to inflict defeat on the enemy with the help of artificial intelligence, stressing the need to undertake space research and carry out relevant projects.

Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division, made the remarks during a ceremony at the Khajeh Nasir al-Din Toosi University of Technology in the capital Tehran on Wednesday.

He stressed that the Islamic Republic holds the "upper hand" in the field of aerospace and is now a strong and formidable player in the region.

“Cooperation among [domestic] universities and the country’s defense sector was initially established in the early stages of the Sacred Defense (the Iraqi imposed war in the 1980s)," said Hajizadeh.

"We have attained tremendous success in the field of cooperation between universities and the defense sector. We can definitely declare that we have turned from an importer of barbed wire into an exporter of technology."

He hastened to add that due to artificial intelligence, Iran has managed to defeat the enemy "at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers away.”A