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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 regimes 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 Irans 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 nations leadership has announced Irans 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 its 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 administrations 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 Firouzabadis 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 Israels 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 Khameneis emphasis on the necessity of supporting Palestinians who fight against the Zionist regime Israel. Khamenei considers defending Israels enemies a religious duty.
The Fars News Agency quoted earlier statements by Khamenei that Iran was directly involved with helping Hezbollah and Hamas during Lebanons 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 Irans 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. Allahs 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 Qurans 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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