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❗️Military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader and former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezaei: Iran will break US blockade through negotiations or direct action
Military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader and former IRGC commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview with CGTN on 29 May that the strategic visions of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are fundamentally aligned, arguing that both seek to impose a new regional order by first weakening Iran.
Rezaei said Iran remains the main obstacle to reshaping West Asia, adding that “as long as Iran remains standing, redrawing the map of West Asia is impossible.”
He described the war as geopolitical in nature, saying its broader objective is to secure strategic access to western China and southern Russia while gaining leverage over Iran’s energy reserves, the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
Rezaei said Israel is pursuing territorial expansion in southern Syria, Lebanon, and parts of Jordan and Iraq, while Washington is focused on energy resources and economic influence.
He argued that Iran has already demonstrated that neither objective can be achieved.
He also called for regional countries to establish a union capable of becoming the world’s fifth major power and said Iran’s military doctrine since the Islamic Revolution has been built around asymmetric warfare, highlighting the use of low-cost drones and fast attack boats against far more expensive military assets.
Addressing the Strait of Hormuz, Rezaei said commercial trade would remain protected while military deployments and aggression would not.
He said the waterway is “closed to military aggression” but remains open to commerce and development, urging China and other partners not to be concerned about its future.
Rezaei added that Iran has spent more than two decades adapting to sanctions and developing methods to neutralize them, stating that Tehran would force the United States to end its naval blockade “either through negotiations or through direct action.”
He also argued that the global balance of power is shifting, predicting that the United States would fall to the position of the world’s second- or third-largest economy within the next decade.
He said Washington ultimately has “no alternative but to negotiate,” while warning that if confrontation continues, Iran could reveal what he described as a “third dimension” of its military capabilities beyond those already demonstrated during recent battles.