News - Middle East: Iran’s Ambassador to Damascus says the Islamic Republic and the resistance movement are the root causes of the United States’ humiliation and defeat in the West Asia region.

Mehdi Sobhani reiterated Iran’s policy of untrammeled support for the resistance movement, noting that Iran’s anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the US three years ago, and the resistance path he organized thwarted the US plots and changed the power equation in favor of the regional nations.

He told the Beirut-based Alahednews website that General Soleimani played a significant role in improving national and international power, saying commemoration ceremonies held on the third anniversary of the hero’s martyrdom conveyed the message that he is still alive in the hearts of people across the world with his ideas and principles.

The Iranian diplomat said General Soleimani belonged not only to the Iranian people, but to all advocates of freedom and the oppressed nations around the world.

“General Soleimani is alive because the battle is still going on, and God willing, we will win in the end,” Sobhani added.

He emphasized that Iran has managed to become a top power in West Asia region over the past two decades thanks to General Soleimani’s ideas, saying the hero has succeeded in changing the equation of power in favor of the axis of resistance and against the axis of evil.

Sobhani stressed that the US administration committed a terrorist crime by assassinating General Soleimani because he had inflicted successive defeats on America in the region which made Washington unable to draw regional equations based on its own engineering.

He emphasized that the perpetrators of the commander’s assassination are “delusional” if they think they can eliminate his lofty goals and principles through his assassination.