Iran official: We will never tolerate US inspections at military sites

A senior Iranian official said on Saturday night that the regime will never allow any foreign government, and especially not the US, to visit its military facilities.

Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami said in a television interview that under no circumstances would Iran allow any such inspections, Iran’s Fars news reported Sunday.

“The great Iranian nation, the US and the world should know that if there is only one demand in the whole world which will be rejected and if there is only one wish that will be taken to the grave, it is the Americans’ demand to visit our military centers,” Salami said.

He stressed that only Iranians would ever be permitted to inspect the sites.

“The Americans should not allow themselves at all to speak about Iran and if they want to visit a base they should go to the the military sites in the US,” he said.

In comments Sunday, Salami also boasted that “the rate of our missile production is so high that we are faced with the problem of space” to keep them in, state television reported.

The comments came in light of US President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to renegotiate or abandon the nuclear deal struck by world powers under his predecessor.

Iran was also slapped with a sanctions bill targeting its missile program and alleged human rights violations, which Trump signed into law last week.

Tehran protested that the new sanctions violated the nuclear accord. President Hassan Rouhani warned Sunday that “if the US intends to stand against the deal, the entire world will stand before the US.”