News - Middle East: Iran’s Army has renewed its commitment to protect the Islamic Republic, warning sworn enemies that it will never allow them to misuse the country. 

The Army issued the warning in a statement on Friday on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of a counterattack -- codenamed Operation Mersad (lit: Ambush) -- against the anti-Iran terrorist cult Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah. Within three days, Iran’s military crippled the enemy forces which suffered over 4,800 casualties.

In its statement, the Army said it would continue to increase the Islamic establishment’s strength and dignity in the future by adhering to the wise guidelines of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The name of the Mersad operation is tied to the Iranian Armed Forces’ honor, glory and pride in the face of the cowardice of the MKO terrorists who sought to encroach on the country’s territory, it added.

The statement noted that the cowardly MKO terrorists carried out a desperate attack against Iran as they imagined that the country was suffering from weak military power after the end of eight years of Iraqi-imposed war.

However, it emphasized, that the Iranian Armed Forces succeeded in giving a crushing and firm response to the terror group so that it would never think about conducting any attack on the country.