Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini has claimed that the country’s armed forces can continue intense warfare for at least six months at the current pace. The statement was reported by Iran’s semi-official news agency and comes amid ongoing hostilities involving the United States and Israel.

According to AFP, Naini’s assertion directly contradicts recent remarks by US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly described the joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran as highly successful. Earlier this week, Trump declared that the United States would win the war by a wide margin and claimed to have destroyed what he called Iran’s “evil empire.”

The IRGC remains one of Iran’s most powerful and influential institutions, extending its reach beyond military and intelligence operations into politics, education, and the economy, according to the report.