"We respond decisively to any attack on the territorial integrity, independence and establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the army of the Islamic Republic of Iran said in a statement on Friday a day before the 44th anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Republic Day.
The Iranian Islamic Republic Day marks a landmark two-day referendum held on March 30-31, 1979, in which more than 98.2 percent of eligible Iranians voted yes to the establishment of an Islamic Republic in the country.
The army statement said that the Iranian Islamic Republic Day and the referendum secured the future of the Islamic Establishment, adding the referendum presented a role model of religious democracy to the world.
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