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Iran's military chief: Death to Israel!

Iran committed to ‘full annihilation of Israel,’ says top Iranian military commander


By Reza Kahlili - The Daily Caller, Published: 11:29 PM 05/20/2012

Iran is dedicated to annihilating Israel, the Islamic regime’s military chief of staff declared Sunday.

“The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel,” Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said in a speech to a defense gathering Sunday in Tehran.

His remarks came on the day International Atomic Energy Agency director Yukiya Amano flew to Tehran to negotiate for inspections of Iran’s nuclear program. They were reported by the Fars News Agency, the media outlet of the Revolutionary Guards Corps.

While many within the Islamic regime, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have often stated that Israel should be annihilated, until Sunday no one in the nation’s leadership has announced Iran’s determined intention to carry it out.

Josh Block, a Middle East expert and former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, told The Daily Caller that it’s unwise to shrug off the threats of a top Iranian military commander.

“When they say it, they mean it,” Block said. “That is the lesson of history. We had best heed that reality. You can be sure the Israelis already understand it.”

Block is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute who worked in the Clinton administration’s State Department. He told TheDC that the U.S. should be concerned about “an Iran that could give nuclear technology to their terrorist allies, including those like Al Qaeda and Hezbollah.”

In a statement, American Jewish Committee executive director David Harris said Firouzabadi’s comments “should also put to rest, once and for all, the fanciful views of those remaining political leaders, diplomats, and journalists who contend that Iran is a ‘peaceful’ nation which has simply been ‘misunderstood’ by the global community.”

Meir Dagan, the former head of Israel’s Mossad, and U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, have both said recently that Iran is a rational actor in the international arena and that the Iranians will consider the implications of their actions.

Block also told TheDC that “the radicals and pseudo-experts at places like Plowshares, Media Matters, NIAC [the National Iranian American Council], writers for ThinkProgress, the New America Foundation and on and on” are “useful idiots and regime apologists” for Iran who continue to believe irrationally that Iran does not have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon.

They “are the same cranks,” he said, “who claim Iran has been ‘misquoted’ or ‘mistranslated’ and never called for the ‘annihilation’ of Israel. Well, I am sure they will find some way to continue their charade, but only to their further discredit.”

On Sunday, Iranian Gen. Firouzabadi also pointed to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s emphasis on the necessity of supporting Palestinians who fight against the “Zionist regime” Israel. Khamenei considers defending Israel’s enemies a religious duty.

The Fars News Agency quoted earlier statements by Khamenei that Iran was directly involved with helping Hezbollah and Hamas during Lebanon’s 33-day war in 2006 and the 22-day Gaza war of 2008-09, which he proclaimed were stinging defeats for Israel.

“In the future too, we will support and help everyone who opposes the Zionist regime,” Khamenei said in February. “The Zionist regime is a real cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut, God willing.”

The mullahs leading Iran’s Islamic regime believe in the messianic return of the 12th and last Islamic messiah, Imam Mahdi. According to Shiite belief, Mahdi will reappear at the time of Armageddon, and his coming — as the Iranian documentary “The Coming Is Upon Us” revealed – will be triggered by the destruction of Israel.

In a recent statement, Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, a religious authority and a top Iranian “Twelver Shia” — one who believes in the 12th Imam — addressed the future world described in the Quran. “The Quran is the proof that the world will be controlled and managed by the forces of truth and that there will be one government ruling everyone throughout the world,” he explained.

The Quran promises — twice — the worldwide rule of Islam and its victory over all other religions, Sobhani said, and this will only happen when the last descendant of Muhammad, Imam Mahdi, returns and takes the rule of Islam across the world.

Ayatollah Khamenei referred to this prophecy in a recent speech. “In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God,” he said, “the Zionists and the Great Satan [America] will soon be defeated. Allah’s promise will be delivered, and Islam will be victorious.”

In February, conservative Muslims writing on a website tied to Khamenei told their followers that the Quran’s promises were “a ‘jurisprudential justification’ to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”

Read more: Iran committed to ‘full annihilation of Israel,’ says top Iranian military commander | The Daily Caller

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so}{eil : Death to you!
 
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I think Iranians are a bit different to Arabs lol

True but Not there stupid leaders.
Head of state speaking like a stupid 16 years old school girls with period :azn:
 
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On topic. Sometimes I really think that top Iranian leaders are agents or something. Look what happened:

When EU was discussing oil sanctions they attacked UK embassy.
Now there are talks with IAEA and they come with open threats to annihilate Israel.

Really, just how stupid they can be?

Your leaders don't fair much better mate. you have no room to talk look Sarkosy and Obama discussed him a liar etc

BBC News - Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu 'liar'
So now u became Sarkozy's fan? :rolleyes:

Good riddance of this poison dwarf. He was hateful to Muslims. Look at all he said about Turkey and then led the killing in Libya. he was just an American poodle
 
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On topic. Sometimes I really think that **top Iranian leaders** are agents or something. Look what happened:

When EU was discussing oil sanctions **they** attacked UK embassy.
Now there are talks with IAEA and they come with open threats to annihilate Israel.

Really, just how stupid they can be?
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"They" were several Iranian students not "top Iranian leaders". And Iranian officials themselves condemned the action.
 
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Sort of like when McCain sang "Bomb, bomb Iran"? :rolleyes:

Or when Hillary Clinton said America would "obliterate" Iran?

The above two statements were made on video, in plain English. So no translation is needed.

I would like to hear from the Iranian members, if the Farsi translation in this case was twisted like it was last time.
 
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Sort of like when McCain sang "Bomb, bomb Iran"? :rolleyes:

Or when Hillary Clinton said America would "obliterate" Iran?

The above two statements were made on video, in plain English. So no translation is needed.

I would like to hear from the Iranian members, if the Farsi translation in this case was twisted like it was last time.

those were the statements in retaliation after Iran threatened to bomb Israel just because they are jews.
 
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those were the statements in retaliation after Iran threatened to bomb Israel just because they are jews.

What kind of logic is that?

Iran has the biggest population of Jews in the middle east (outside of Israel).

If Iran really had a problem with Jews, then it would be ten thousand times easier to just attack the Jews inside Iran itself, instead of trying to attack the well-defended state of Israel. But they don't.
 
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Seriously, we've got tens of threads already about this issue! Requesting mods to make a single topic and post all "bomb israel and bomb Iran" news there..
 
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those were the statements in retaliation after Iran threatened to bomb Israel just because they are jews.

Outrageous Lies , you'll never find a case of Iran say we attack Israel , unless they put the retaliatory precondition before that
 
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Israel carries the seeds of its destruction within itself. No entity, group or country survives through brute force alone. If you live by the sword, you can be sure you will eventually die by the sword. There will come a time when Israel as a nation will have to rely on the cultural and civilizational imprints and affinities it has created with other entities in its vicinity for its continued existence. And as we all know such considerations are too pedestrian for the the chosen people. After all, they have F-15s and Mercavas. So I'm afraid history is going to keep repeating itself for them.
 
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