Commander of Iran’s Army Aviation Force said on Thursday that the Air Force of the Islamic Republic stopped the war machine of Iraq’s Ba’athist regime.

Yousef Ghorbani, Commander of Iran’s Army Aviation Second Brigadier General praised the role of Iran’s Army Aviation as “unprecedented and unparalleled” in stabilizing the Islamic Revolution

He said that Army Aviation of the Islamic Revolution has played a key role since the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 in confronting enemies and dealing with insecurities which had been orchestrated in some border areas of the country by MKO and dissidents.

“If it weren’t for the struggle of revolutionary and popular forces of the Islamic forces in the early days of the Islamic Revolution, we would have lost the western part of the country in the face of attacks of dissidents waged against the country,” he added, as quoted by Mehr news agency.

Elsewhere in his remarks, commander of Army Aviation Force pointed to the outstanding role of the aviation force during eight years of Sacred Defense (Iraqi imposed war against Iran in 1980-1988) and emphasized that Iran’s Army Aviation Force managed to stop the war machine of Iraq’s Ba’athist regime in the first three days of the conflict.

Source: Iranian media