Ali Larijani:

🚫 "The biggest problem of Americans is that they don't understand the intellectual and cultural fabric of this region - Western Asia, and especially Iran.

🚫 They think that if they were able to do something, for example, in Venezuela, they could repeat the same thing here. But here a completely different way of thinking prevails.

🚫 They wanted to change the situation and plunge Iran into chaos through shock and confusion among people.

🚫 From the very beginning, the Americans hoped to destabilize the internal situation in Iran by killing the country's leadership and some of our commanders. The first stage of their plan was to destroy the administrative and state structure.

🚫 The Americans thought that this would happen very quickly. Their strategy was to end the war with a powerful but short strike.

🚫 But they didn't take into account one thing - that the Iranians wouldn't just let them go."

🚫 Context: Ali Larijani has repeatedly stated that the US misunderstands the political and cultural reality of the region and underestimates Iran's readiness to resist.