According to government controlled media, speaking at a meeting of a number of Basij functionaries, Naqdi said:
“…The 2009 crisis that the enemy had planned for it for a few decades, was a difficult test… However, we must know that the fabric and structure of next crises will be different from what we saw in 2009. But in the next crisis, the situation will be quite murky and it will be very difficult to distinguish the right from the wrong…”