Iranian Islamic scholar Abolfazl Razavi Ardakani said in a Friday, December 30, 2022 sermon in Shiraz, Iran that IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in January 2020, will be avenged with the expulsion of "the plunderers" from the region. He also said that if Saudi Arabia and its "master" were capable of attacking Iran, they would have done so ten times by now. Ardakani's sermon was aired on Fars TV (Iran). For more about Ardakani, see MEMRI TV Clip No. 9826.
Abolfazl Razavi Ardakani: "Saudi Arabia and its master cannot withstand Iran's power for even one week. You may rest assured that if they had the means and capability, they would have attacked Iran ten times by now. They demand to dismantle Iran's missiles and influence in the region. No! Much to the enemy's dismay, the power of Iran extends all the way to the Mediterranean shore. It is in Yemen and in Lebanon, and Israel is besieged by it. Inshallah, the revenge for the blood of the martyr [Qasem] Soleimani will take the form of expelling the plunderers from the region."