If anything, since concluding their nuclear agreement with the U.S., the new moderate Iranians have only grown more bellicose. Clearly they think, as Hitler did after humiliating Neville Chamberlain at Munich, that their foes are weak, spineless, and anxious to appease them. Like Hitler after Munich, they are stepping up their saber-rattling, as well as their actual moves towards war. One wonders if there is a Winston Churchill on the horizon, ready to face them down at the eleventh hour. There certainly seems to be an inexhaustible supply of Neville Chamberlains.
“Iranian TV airs simulated bombing of Tel Aviv, US aircraft carrier,” by Ilan Ben Zion for the Times of Israel, February 8 (thanks to Lookmann):
Iranian state TV on Friday ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a hypothetical retaliation for an Israeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic.
Iranian drones and missiles are also shown carrying out simulated strikes on the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, downing American aircraft and striking American military targets in the Persian Gulf.
The clip was broadcast amid a clear escalation of anti-American rhetoric and even action by Iran: On Saturday, an Iranian admiral announced that Iran had despatched warships to the North Atlantic, while Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the Americans as liars who, while professing to be friends of Iran, would bring down his regime if they could. He also said it was “amusing” that the US thought Iran would reduce its “defensive capabilities.”
The film, entitled “The Nightmare of Vultures,” opens with Supreme Leader Khamenei addressing military academy graduates in 2011, warning: “Anybody who thinks of attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran should be prepared to receive strong slaps and iron fists from the Armed Forces.”
“And America, its regional puppets and its guard dog – the Zionist regime – should know that the response of the Iranian nation to any kind of aggression, attacks or even threats will be a response that will make them collapse from within,” the film shows him saying.
Set to dramatic music, the video shows Iranian drones and missiles carrying out strikes against Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina square, the Azrieli Towers skyscrapers, and the IDF’s Kirya central command complex, as well as Ben Gurion International Airport, Haifa’s Technion, several army and air force bases, and the nuclear reactor in Dimona.
The strike on the Israel’s central command building is shown taking place while former prime minister Ehud Olmert and former defense minister Amir Peretz — who served in that capacity during the 2006 Second Lebanon War — are inside convening a meeting.
The clips of drone strikes on Israel are interspersed with shots of Israeli emergency personnel evacuating injured Israeli civilians and soldiers while air raid sirens wail.
A barrage of missiles brings down Tel Aviv’s skyscrapers in a final blow.
Afterwards, Iranian drones and missiles are show attacking the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on its way through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. Iranian drones are shown downing several American aircraft before sinking the US capital ship. Zooming out to a map of the Middle East marked with US military bases, Iranian missiles are then shown striking American military targets across the Persian Gulf.
In November, Iranian state television aired a shorter animated clip showing Iranian missiles targeting Israeli cities.
Iranian leaders have made repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map, and have threatened to annihilate Tel Aviv should Iran’s nuclear facilities be attacked by the West.


opinionated says
They can only but dream…..
logdon says
Geneva/Munich. What’s the difference?
Tommy Peters says
It is hard to imagine that the Cyrus Cylinder, the first Human Rights Declaration in written form, was crafted by a Persian, who freed Jews from the strife of Babylonian captivity; who sponsored the first Zionist movement to rebuild their temple.
BlueRaven says
That was more than 1000 years before Mo was invented by a bunch of hurd abusers in Arabia. It is also disputed the Cyrus Cylinder was used to free Jews. Iran and Egypt were great places and great people use to live there before the evil encapsulated them till they breath and sprout through their mouth only extraordinary barbaric stuff.
What good has Islam did to Iran and other Muslim people? Absolutely nothing. Their civilization was far superior then than it is today. Todays, the Islamic nations are full of bull crap as it is evident in this illogical simulated movie.
The Aton says
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A nation of idiots being led by idiots.
Drones reaching Tel Aviv from Iran? Drones with 20kg rockets causing major damage to Israel? What planet are these people on?
Idiots led by idiots.
duh_swami says
‘The mother of all battles’ didn’t work out so well last time. I doubt the next one will do any better.
mortimer says
It’s time for NATO to prepare to bomb Iran. Hit their airforce, hit their navy, hit the presidential palace. Make craters wherever there are defensive guns, rockets or storage. Hit the nuclear labs. Massively bomb them with a coordinated effort of 20 countries.
Rob says
Let’s simply spread the news that the IDF have perfected a way of taking over the guidance system of Iranian drones and redirecting them back to Tehran.
New take on ‘friendly fire’.
William Doohan says
or actually hjack their systems and really do that…
Buraq says
A virtual religion with a virtual holy book, a virtual prophet and virtual claims of supremacy. These clowns don’t know what reality is.
But they will learn the hard way if they try to turn their virtual world into reality. The Israelis will blow them away! Or Stuxnet will blow up their rockets in their silos.
Clowns!
onisac says
The purpose of this is to establish certain taqiyya (lies) by any means neccessary.
It is done in the middle-east daily, and has been since the 700’s AD. They have admitted that in war, taqiyya (lieing) is permitted if it helps your effectiveness.
That is the single reason why peace treaties, agreements of any kind, aren’t worth the effort. The average Joe in the middle-east hasn’t a clue about what is right, and what is wrong. Because they have never heard the truth, they remain ignorant.
The United States is foolish to think they want to be like us. Fact is they want ‘us’ Muslim, or dead. That message is 1400 years old. Peace is not, nor has it ever been a factor, meaning all Kafirs (non-Muslims) most by killed for their own sake. “To rid themselves from evil. That’s right ‘we are thought of as being demans, enemies of Allah’. Pocessed by the devil himself. Totally possessed by Satan and therefor evil..
The free world must know the truth, or it will be too late, to recover.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
To repeat what you wrote – “Fact is they want ‘us’ Muslim, or dead. That message is 1400 years old. Peace is not, nor has it ever been a factor, meaning all Kafirs (non-Muslims) most by killed for their own sake. “To rid themselves from evil. That’s right ‘we are thought of as being demans, enemies of Allah’. Possessed by the devil himself. Totally possessed by Satan and therefor evil..”.
And the awful thing is this: that when they think that, they are *projecting*. For it is they who, on all the available indications, are the Possessed ones, in thrall to evil.
People of the Lie, they project their lying onto *us* (onto all six billion or so non-Muslims in the world).
Mo-Blows says
And the UN is asleep at the wheel once again. Don’t expect the UN to stand up against a member nation making threats of war and aggression. Nah, they will most likely appoint them to another human rights council where they can point fingers at the US or the west and claim some backward sense of moral superiority.
The UN needs to go.
Walter Sieruk says
With the information of the above article as well as other sources it’s madness and folly that Obama still feels ,in spite of all the facts, that some kind of good, workable deal has been made or that further good deals may be made with Rouhani ,Ayatollah and the mullahs who have supreme in Iran. For the officials of these ruling clerics do know how to dissimulate. They have been and will continue to be very disingenuous in any further “dialouge.” For the Islamic clerics who are the dictators in Iran are all of the same mindset.in In that they are all deluded Muslim fanatics who have an Islamic agenda about going nuclear and will not listen to reason. For religious fanatics will not respond to reason. In any so called “negotiations” the officials of those in power in will speak the truth only when it happens to suite them. The rest of the time they will be lying and saying half- truths. In any “talks’ they will try to get as much sanctions lifted as possible. This is not to, as they claim, to make life more easy for the Iranian people but so that they in a more easy way might get to materials they need to go nuclear to construct weapons of mass destruction. W.M. D. are what they are really after either by going nuclear or by some other way. This is because in the own kind of Islam that has so much power in Iran they have a delusion that is very absurd and irrational yet they believe it because it their Islam. Which is that they believe in a coming Islamic messiah which they call the Twelfth Imam or Mahdi. part of their belief system is that someday the Mahdi will come and then set the whole world “right” in an Islamic way. Nevertheless , first for this character to come things in the Middle East and the world need to get worse not better. That is there W.M.D. come in in their mad Islamic quest.
Of course the kind of strange irrational way of thinking is very for many people of the West hard to understand since is base on blind religious fanaticism and not logic or reason. As Benjamin Franklin printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK “The way to see by faith is to shut door of reason.” Furthermore, they also want to obtain W.M. D. because they hate the State of Israel, which they call the little Satan. They hate the Untied Stated, which they call the great Satan. They also also hate all the other countries of the West and all the non-Muslim people in them. Moreover, at a group lecture that I attended where the guest speaker was a man who was in times past an Iranian citizen, a Muslim and a Hezbollah member but now a Christian and an American citizen was asked near the end of the lecture, during the question and answer part, “What about this new Obama deal with Iran ?” The speaker answered “It is a disaster. It’s a disaster for Israel, it’s a disaster for the Iranian people, it’s a disaster for America, it’s a disaster for the Middle East and a disaster for the world.”
JimJFox says
Pure fantasy, as others have said. It’s for home consumption and will lead their population to utter destruction, if they really believe this nonsense.
Whilst the ill conceived wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dented confidence in western military power we should remember that the initial onslaught was
100% successful, in destroying the immediate ‘threat’.
The next major war [Iran/Israel/???] will not be one of invasion of a major country but of ‘stand-off’ conventional weaponry, with the tactical nuclear option immediately available, should results be inadequate. Neither Israel the USA nor an ally will be interested in ‘boots on the ground’.
UNLESS, in some way, Saudi Arabia gets involved- then all bets are off due to the strategic oil supply question.
Roofgardener says
Well, I couldn’t find this video on youtube.
I DID, however, blunder across an earlier version ‘simulating’ missile attacks against various targets in Israel.
What can I say ? The video was embarrassing. It would be embarrassing as an O’level creative arts project, (O’ levels are the standard exams taken in the UK at age 16) and likely attract a fail grade.
And THIS was an official Iranian Government production ? THIS was the best the full resources of their nation-state could achieve ? A British 16-year old could do better, using standard home equipment and readily available shareware.
Are they SO introverted that they don’t SEE how risible this video is ? How impoverished it makes them look ?
Far from being a source of fear, this video accentuates how technically backwards Iran is, and – I suggest – would make most viewers begin to doubt that their REAL missiles could even make it off the launch pad.
gravenimage says
New moderate Iranian TV airs simulated bombing of Tel Aviv, US aircraft carrier
If anything, since concluding their nuclear agreement with the U.S., the new moderate Iranians have only grown more bellicose.
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Who knew that craven appeasement would lead to increased aggression? sarc/off
More:
Clearly they think, as Hitler did after humiliating Neville Chamberlain at Munich, that their foes are weak, spineless, and anxious to appease them. Like Hitler after Munich, they are stepping up their saber-rattling, as well as their actual moves towards war.
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Yes…
More:
Iranian state TV on Friday ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a hypothetical retaliation for an Israeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic.
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Several posters have noted that this is a fantasy—this is true. Drones can’t carry anything like those kinds of payloads, nor is it likely that Iran has drone technology to begin with.
But remember: the “Thousand-Year Reich” was a fantasy, too—that didn’t mean that Nazi Germany was incapable of causing an immense amount of suffering. In other words, Iran is still dangerous.
More:
…Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the Americans as liars who, while professing to be friends of Iran, would bring down his regime if they could. He also said it was “amusing” that the US thought Iran would reduce its “defensive capabilities.”
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Aren’t you glad we “reached out” to these bellicose nutjobs? sarc/off
And note the grotesque projection here: presenting an all-out attack on Israeli civilians as “defensive”.
It is clear that whatever Iran’s actual capacities, that they have been greatly emboldened, first by Western inaction, and now by our outright appeasement.
Lookmann says
‘It is clear that whatever Iran’s actual capacities, that they have been greatly emboldened, first by Western inaction, and now by our outright appeasement.’
That aptly sums it up.
Geordie says
If Iran is turned into a contaminated nuclear wasteland sometime soon, I will not complain. Israeli armed forces should be given their own fleet of boomers, to ensure Iran toes the line.
dumbledoresarmy says
When I am poking about in cyberspace, whenever I find interesting things, I copy them and keep them.
Way back in January 2009, at about the time that Israel was giving Jihad Fortress Gaza and its gang bosses a much-deserved (but not hard enough) drubbing, I was reading the Comments to a column written by one Carolyn Overington, at the website of “The Australian” newspaper. Carolyn had just written a scorching piece excoriating a nasty bit of antisemitism that had been published by the “Age ” newspaper in Melbourne.
Many comments ensued. And among them was this. (I cannot give a link – I searched later, but the Australian does not seem to keep a very efficient archive). In any event, as a first-hand testimony to what Muslims in Australia felt entitled to say – in public – it is worth repeating, at intervals. The Muslims in question were Iranian. Presumably they are still hanging around.
‘Jonathan Whybird
‘Mon 19 Jan 09 (05:24pm)
‘Excellent article Carolyn. I note the earlier poster who said that he/she has sent the article in question to the Anti-Discrimination Commission. I think The Australian should do this itself and report on the outcome – it would be very very interesting.
‘Marcus (the expert on everything) [this being another commenter in the talkback – dda] I cannot agree with your view that most of the Palestinians [sic – dda] are peaceful people.
‘On Saturday [17th Jan 2009 – dda] in Brisbane **there was another demonstration in favour of Palestine at which anybody who bothered to go (I live in the city and they marched in my street so I had a front row ground level seat as my fiance and I had come back from a run) would have heard Muslim Australians chanting “kill the jews”.** {my emphasis – dda}
‘ I even spoke to **one protestor who confirmed he was Muslim and from Iran who said there would only be peace when Israel and the rest of the west was destroyed.** {my emphasis – dda; nota bene, this was five years ago; an Iranian Muslim, living in Australia, but filled with hatred and a desire to destroy both Israel and *all* of ‘the West”, which would imply clearly that he desired to destroy *Australia* where he had just settled himself as a Fifth Columnist and advance scout of the Army of the Ummah – dda}
‘ Now this man was supported by many of his fellow protestors who screamed with him, but for three men in the crowd who shook their heads and at that point left the protest (and apologised to us for the comments of the others). {note well who were in the minority, and who in the majority – and it may be that the three men who left were simply Slow Jihadists who thought the other Fast Jihadists were alarming the Aussie kuffar unduly, before the time was ripe – dda}
‘When I asked the man why he hated the west he said “because you reject the prophet”.
‘ Please explain to me how this sort of behaviour should be tolerated? Also why is it that two weekends in a row have seen protests in their thousands against Israel – but the muslim community was silent over september 11, bali and London?’ END
To repeat, especially for anyone reading here today with whom I have not shared this interesting little piece of “testimony from the grassroots”:
a/” another demonstration in favour of Palestine at which anybody who bothered to go (I live in the city and they marched in my street so I had a front row ground level seat as my fiance and I had come back from a run) would have heard Muslim Australians [that is: Muslims currently resident in Australia – dda] chanting “kill the jews”.”
b/ “I even spoke to **one protestor who confirmed he was Muslim and from Iran who said there would only be peace when Israel and the rest of the west was destroyed.”**
c/ ‘When I asked the man why he hated the west he said “because you reject the prophet”.
And that’s it. That’s ALL it takes to be a target of monstrous, mass-murderous hate, the hatred that dreams of turning cities to ash and murdering millions; ALL we have to do is “reject the prophet”, refuse the dawa, say, “no, thank you, we do not want to become Muslims, we much prefer to remain Jewish/ Christian/ Hindu/ Buddhist/ atheist [insert non-Muslim belief system here]”, “we prefer to live under our own laws and customs and govern ourselves”, “we do not intend to pay tribute or jizya to Muslim mobsters”, “we do not want to live under the Sharia and under the crazed misrule of muslim dictators or the Muslim Mob”.
For the heinous crime of saying “no!” to Muslim rule and to the Muslim Total System, for our sin of “being-infidel-while-breathing”, we ‘deserve’ to be, from their malignant narcissist POV, PUNISHED.
Of course, it isn’t just ‘the west’. It’s every human on earth who isn’t a Muslim, who is a target.