Iran Leader: We have to strengthen ourselves to avoid war

L eader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called for a further strengthening of the country’s defense power to confront threats and avoid any possible outbreak of war.

Iran has managed to “paralyze” its enemies, the Leader told a group of Iranian Air Force commanders and personnel in Tehran Saturday.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic has developed its own "sophisticated” means of defense in response to the enemy's use of increasingly advanced measures against Iran.

Every year on February 8, Iranian Air force commanders and personnel meet the Leader to mark the historic allegiance of Iranian Air Force officers with the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini back on February 8, 1979.

The meeting is viewed as a turning point which led to the victory of the Islamic Revolution three days later, sealing the fate of the US-backed Pahlavi regime in Iran.