[Iran's Top Security Official: Iran Also Protected Arab Countries] In an interview, Rezaei, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, stated: "I want to ask Arab officials: If Iran hadn't resisted and had been forced to surrender, wouldn't Israel be attacking Saudi Arabia today? Wouldn't Israel have advanced all the way to Damascus? Wouldn't Israel have attacked Iraq? We have already paid the price with our martyrs here; we are defending Arab countries. If we hadn't given the US and Israel a 'brutal nose' here in Iran, if they had won in Iran, then no force in the region would have been able to stand against them. Israel would have attacked all Arab countries, and the US would have supported that action. We resisted, we defended our country, and our defense has also benefited Arab countries."