NCRI – Mohsen Rezai, secretary of the Iranian regime’s State Expediency Council who also served as the commander of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) during the Iran-Iraq war, has called entering Iraq after the ‘liberation of Khorramshahr’ a mistake.
In an interview with the state-run “Khabar News Network” on September 24, Rezai said: “We shouldn’t have entered Iraq; rather, we should have announced that we would enter Iraq unless the Iraqi government met our demands.”
Regarding the decision to send the regime’s troops into Iraq, Rezaei acknowledged later in the interview that entering Iraq has been due to “inexperience” of Iranian officials.
These words by the former commander of the IRGC come at a time that the regime’s officials have previously defended the decision to send Iranian troops into Iraq and continue the Iran-Iraq war after the ‘liberation of Khorramshahr.’
Nevertheless, the former commander of the IRGC said that Khomeini believed that the war should have continued until Saddam was overthrown.
These statements by Rezaee are expressed some two decades after the mullahs’ regime poured two million people into the war and spent billions of dollars for an anti-patriotic war.