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'The shout of 'Death to Israel' was loud and clear among the people'
Published: 2 hours ago
by Reza KahliliEmail | Archive
Kahlili served in the CIA Directorate of Operations, as a spy in the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard and counterterrorism expert. He currently
teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence
Training Academy and serves as a senior fellow with EMPact America and
on the newly formed federal Task Force on National and Homeland
Security. He is the author of the award-winning book "
If
Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tel Aviv – Israel’s
second-most-populated city – will burn to ashes, senior Iranian cleric
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami warned yesterday.
The threat was the latest verbal assault that started last week, when
the supreme leader of the Islamic regime, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a speech to Iranian researchers and academics, said the world was on the verge of major political and social changes, with Islam playing a major role.
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Then on International Quds Day, every regime official from the
supreme leader and president to military commanders openly called for
the annihilation of Israel.
Quds Day is an annual event that began after the Islamic Revolution
of 1979 in Iran in which the founder of the revolution, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, assigned the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as
the day to support the Palestinians and damn the Israelis, stating that
the movement will have two goals: the freedom of Palestine and
destruction of Israel.
On this year’s Quds Day, Khamenei said, “Light of hope will shine on
the Palestinians, and this Islamic land will certainly be returned to
the Palestinian nation, and the superfluous and fake Zionist regime will
disappear from the landscape of geography.”
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling Israel’s existence “an insult to all humanity,”
said, “The Zionist regime and the Zionists are a cancerous tumor. … The
nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the
Palestinian land. … With the grace of God and help of the nations, in
the new Middle East there will be no trace of the Americans and
Zionists.”
The chief commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Jafari, stated that Iran is at the helm of this worldwide enmity against Israel. Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi called “Beitol Moghadas” (Jerusalem) an inseparable part of the world of Islam that will soon return to the Muslims.
As the Washington Times reported last week, the Revolutionary Guards
warned that the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have been
armed with chemical, microbial and other weapons of mass destruction and
that once the order is given, they will attack Tel Aviv. It also hinted
at a nuclear attack on Israel.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Naarallah warned last week that his forces have the capability to inflict “tens of thousands of Israeli deaths.”
Ayatollah Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, went further
and told reporters, “They have seen our missiles with a range of 2,000
kilometers in the Islamic Republic’s exercises, and in case of an
attack, Tel Aviv will turn into ashes.”
“The world has seen that the Islamic Iran is committed with its goal
to free Beitol Moghadas and that all the pressures exerted on Iran have
not changed that one bit,” Khatami said. “On the Quds Day held in
France, Russia and other countries, the shout of ‘Death to Israel’ was
loud and clear among the people. This shows the claim by America, that
the world is against Iran, is specific to those countries that are
servants of America; however, the freedom lovers of the world are on the
side of Iran and glorify and bow to Iran.”
Khatami said
the “Quran states that in facing the Zionists, one must use force. …
God willing, soon the removal of Israel from the world will come
together for the Muslims.”
News reports from inside Iran
indicate that Ahmadinejad will attend the 67th session of the U.N.
General Assembly next month in New York and that U.N. Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon has arranged a dinner at which President Obama will be
joined by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad’s office has denied the dinner report.
Reza Kahlili translated this Iranian video about Islamic prophecies of a coming messiah and the destruction of Israel:
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the author of the award-winning book, A Time to Betray. He is a senior Fellow with EMPact America, a member of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
Top Opinion
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Dale 2012/08/20 00:09:51Protecting the USA and allies is job number one
+4It is "...job number one..," but stammering and yammering in United Nations, that worthless world wide organization that has lost any and all credibility since 1949, has done nothing, nothing to prevent an armed Iran with nuclear weapons(I know, I know, they don't have the nuke's... ...yet. But one year, five years, what difference does it make?) and S to MRICBM's. It is the stated policy of Iran and it's proxies to wipe Israel off the map. Now they just might do it, but it can be pretty much assured that before they do, the whole of the Middle East and the whole of the Muslim world will be turned to glass. Gonna' be a lose - lose situtation here. And if Incumbent and "His" Administration start taking actions other than "sanctions" against Iran, this might come sooner rather than later.
There is also several other factors to consider here, despite the rhetoric and rumour mongering, there is nothing that Iran would want more than to pull the allies into a war as it would serve to catalyse the BRIC nations.
US and Israeli security forces have gone on record as saying that Iran is at least five years from weoponising their nuclear material and it is borne out by the inspectors.
As a cynical analyst, I would have to admit that there is a possibility that a potential external threat is being hyped for political reasons - the same reasons that precluded WWII. External threats polarise people from potential internal struggle and revolution focusing it externally...