Mohammad Nabi Mousavi-Fard, the Friday Prayer Imam of Ahvaz, said in the sermons of Friday prayers in this city: “The enemy has repeatedly claimed that our nuclear energy has been wiped out, so what is it looking for now? Nuclear energy has nothing to do with any power or country; it is an internal matter. If anyone thinks otherwise, let them come and fight.”

Mousavi-Fard added: “The enemy is close to surrender, and its signs are evident in the preemptive attacks by armed forces on the U.S.’s investments in Jordan, the redeployment/withdrawal of American bases from the region, and the creation of a crisis in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.”

He added: “If an infrastructure war takes place, the enemy will move faster than Iran toward scorched lands and the Stone Age.”