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Iranian parliament speaker urges higher defense power

24 June 2012 02:47 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani called for the necessity of improving the country’s defense capabilities, APA reports quoting Press TV.

"We should pay attention to defense preparedness so that our defense capabilities will meet the highest (level) as far as possible," Larijani said Saturday in Tehran during a ceremony marking the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Day.

"Our defensive efforts must conform to our country’s terrain diversity as well as the enemies’ (military) capacities," he was quoted as saying.

Insisting that the country’s confrontation with enemies in the international scene is multifaceted, Larijani said that "in some cases our enemies engage in rogue political measures against us and in other instances they resort to other sorts of pressure to undermine our nation," according to the report.

The present conditions as well as the country’s national interests call for high deterrence preparedness of the armed forces, he added.