The leader announced the news in an address broadcast live on state TV today.
A senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Major General Qassem Soleimani, also declared the end of Islamic State in a message sent to the country’s supreme leader.
The messaged was published on Sepah News, the news site of the Guards.
Videos and pictures of Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force, have been posted frequently by Iranian media in recent years.
The Quds Force is the unit responsible for operations outside of Iran’s borders at frontline positions in battles against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Last week, Iranian media published pictures of Soleimani at Albu Kamal in eastern Syria, a town which Soleimani said was the last territory retaken from Islamic State control in the region.
The Revolutionary Guards has been fighting in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the central government in Baghdad for several years.
It is Iran’s most powerful military force, which also oversees an economic empire worth billions of dollars.
More than a thousand members of the Guards, including senior commanders, have been killed in Syria and Iraq.
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