Iran can fight 'intense war' for six months: IRGC

Iran can fight a war of this size and scale for “at least” another six months, a Revolutionary Guards official has claimed.

In a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency, which has links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Guards spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini said: “The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least a 6-month intense war at the current pace of operations”, reports Guardian.

The remarks, reported by AFP, amount to a starkly different assessment to that put forward in recent days by Donald Trump, who has repeatedly claimed the operation launched by US and Israel over Iran has been very successful.

“We’re winning the war by a lot,” the US president said this weekend. “We decimated their whole evil empire.”

The IRGC is one of the most feared and powerful organisations in Iran, my colleague Jonathan Yerushalmy has previously reported. Its influence stretches beyond military and intelligence to politics, education and the economy.