He labeled as a sheer lie the recent U.S. claim that Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps is offering arms equipment to the armed groups of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The U.S. claim is aimed at diverting elsewhere public attention to its repeated failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and inventing a pretext to keep its forces there for a long period, he charged.

The regional countries will not allow the military presence of the occupation forces any longer, he said, urging the foreign forces to immediately withdraw from the region for the sake of peace and security.