Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday that Tehran had faced down the United States’ Central Command and NATO on its own in June’s 12-day war with Israel, describing the conflict as a strategic victory that forced its adversaries to seek a halt to fighting.
Speaking at a conference on the Basij’s role in universities at Farhangian University in Tehran, IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Ali-Mohammad Naeini said Iran’s leadership had chosen to confront “all of CENTCOM and NATO on its own without seeking assistance from any country,” according to remarks carried by state media.
Naeini framed the war as a test of Iran’s deterrence and social resilience, saying the country’s command structure was rapidly restored after initial strikes and that public mobilization and government coordination sustained what he called high levels of economic and political endurance.
He said Iranian missile attacks hit “at least 45 strategic centers” in Israel, and that this pressure left Israel “compelled to request an end to the conflict.”
He also said Israel would not have survived a longer confrontation. “If this war had continued for two more weeks, nothing would have remained of the Zionist regime,” Naeini said, without providing details.
In a broader defense of Iran’s military doctrine, Naeini said Tehran had built an “indigenous, defensive, people-based and asymmetric” strategy since the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, and that younger missile scientists had expanded Iran’s capabilities to respond to evolving threats.
He said Iran had avoided widening the conflict to other fronts. “Since Iran could defeat the enemy using a single missile unit, there was no need to widen the war to other fronts.”
The IRGC spokesman said Iran’s armed forces are now better prepared across all dimensions than they were during the 12-day war, adding that they are continuing to boost readiness and repair past damage.
He added that Iran believes its adversaries are not currently in a position to launch a new conflict and are grappling with serious internal problems.
