'US will never achieve goals in Mideast'

"The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly opposes the plots of arrogance," IRNA quoted the Commander of the Iranian Army, Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan, as saying on Monday.

He said the US ordered former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to attack Iran in the 1980s in order to eliminate the ideas of the Islamic Revolution and its founder, the late Imam Khomeini.

He added that the enemies' aggression against Iran had another evil objective, specifically preventing the spread of the Islamic Revolution to other countries in the region.

However, Iran has made great achievements in various fields and will fight against the conspiracies of the arrogant powers, Pourdastan said.