This is nothing new: Iranian leaders have said it many times before. Still, no one in the West seems to believe that they mean what they say.
“Iran militia chief: Destroying Israel is ‘nonnegotiable,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, March 31, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
The commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable,” according to an Israel Radio report Tuesday.
Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen “will have a fate like the fate of Saddam Hussein.”
Naqdi’s comments were made public as Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue nuclear negotiations in a new phase aimed at reaching a comprehensive accord by the end of June.
In 2014, Naqdi said Iran was stepping up efforts to arm West Bank Palestinians for battle against Israel, adding the move would lead to Israel’s annihilation, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
“Arming the West Bank has started and weapons will be supplied to the people of this region,” Naqdi said.
“The Zionists should know that the next war won’t be confined to the present borders and the Mujahedeen will push them back,” he added. Naqdi claimed that much of Hamas’s arsenal, training and technical knowhow in the summer conflict with Israel was supplied by Iran.
The Basij is a religious volunteer force established in 1979 by the country’s revolutionary leaders, and has served as a moral police and to suppress dissent….
mariam rove says
what a pos. He is so hated by the Iranians…m
RG says
Touché, ‘m’, I know that you know! Glad to know you are back safely!
mariam rove says
Thanks. It is the law of physics. Anything that goes up must come down. Those bastards will be coming down too. m
Joseph says
“The commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable,”
Anyone who is against GOD’S people shall NOT be blessed. This is what really is nonnegotiable. Just look at history. They are sowing the seeds of their very own destruction.
boakai ngombu says
yes. the Allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) offers a false covenant WITH ALL OF MANKIND.
mortimer says
Basij is almost identical to Hitler’s Brown Shirts, used to intimidate ordinary citizens and steal elections.
tom says
Robert, we have to chose a side in this conflict. It was Sunni Arabs who flew planes into our towers, it was and is Sunni Arabs who routinely harrass israel.
Pakistan has nukes and the taliban, yet no one cares about that. Why should we fear these Shia Persianz more than Sunni arabs?
Richard Parmene says
They’ll do it. So many Iranian leaders say it, it’s almost unavoidable. But nobody takes them seriously. Beware! Nobody believed that Hitler would try to exterminate the Jews as he had written many years before in Mein Kampf, but he did.
Lioness says
Obama takes them seriously and he like it that way. He knows – and whole heartedly agrees with – that Iran’s goal is to destroy Israel. It coincides perfectly with his own wishes.
davidramseur says
How bout we choose the side that is against evil Islam (Sunni and Shia). They are enemies but they both hate the infidel more than they hate each other! Islam is a religion of war indeed.
allan carr bryan says
Not so long ago 5 Arab countries couldn’t beat Israel, what makes them think they can do it now?
umbra says
Magic mushrooms or other similar psychotropic agents.
Bezelel says
naqdi is being more honest than obola. Bibi knows damn well they mean it. I’m the light goes on in all the free countries. It is beyond ridiculous to expect peace out iran under it’s current system yet obola and associates keep selling it.
Bezelel says
Typo, ( I’m Hoping the light goes on in all the free countries.)
abad says
Cyrus the Great must be spinning in his grave
David, Thailand says
Just as well this has nothing to do with Islam, otherwise our glorious leaders, media and academia would continue lying to us.
FarmerMike says
Seems one of the best things we can do is send in a BLIZZARD OF LETTERS & EMAILS to all newspapers and radio & TV, & also to our Reps & Senators. And to student media on campuses. We need to try to awaken our fellow citizens! What Obama is orchestrating is hideous!! We need to take actions! I know Israel will ably defend herself, if it comes to that. But we cannot stand idly by as spectators simply watching this happen. We need to take actions now!
Martin Vink says
In response to these deadly slogans, we need to remain focused. We are fighting the next wave of children who are studying the Quran. Removing the Quran is a better focus than just trying to shoot ever all Muslims. There are many who dont study the Quran.
We need to destroy the Qaran in civilized society first and the rest will follow later because of the debate that will create around the world. We cannot do everything at once but we can do it one civilized nation after the other, starting with the easiest nation first.
In the USA and other countries that allow referendums, we can amend the constitutions and make it illegal to preach from the Quran and make it illegal to refer to sharia.
Make no mistake, this will not be an easy or bloodless task but if we do it now, we may escape civil wars.
One other thing . . . we need to return to the foundations of our constitutions . . . the Bible.
tom says
Put the shoe on the other foot. If Iran was putting crippeling sanctions on the US, we would be calling for their deaths too.
Shia Iran has elections, the Gulf Sunni Monarchs do not.
Shia Iran funds hezbollah and the huttis. While the Sunnis fund the Taliban, al qaeda, boko horam, ISIS.
its the sunni erodagan who wants the caliphate back.
nuclear, sunni, pakistan has nuclear bombs.
tom says
Edit: nuclear pakistan has the taliban running around.
Joseph says
The REAL question is why does Iran have all these sanctions??? Does it have something to do with “the bomb” and other atrocities.
Please don’t fall for leftist thinking. Pretty soon they will be telling you that the Jews were the masterminds of the holocaust during WWII.
tom says
Iran has those sanctions because we’re too scared to place them on the gulf states or pakistan.
Its almost as if we scrutinize and sanction Iran as to appease the sunni Monarchs and extremists.
FarmerMike says
Some folks say the West should lure all the Iranian nuclear scientists away by offering them higher salaries.
Others suggest that removing all sanctions on consumer goods could release such a wave of consumer demand, that it could morph into a popular uprising, toppling the ayatollahs.
These ideas may seem a bit far-fetched. But they have the advantage of being relatively harmless, & inexpensive. A straightjacket of sanctions, or nuclear war, should not be our only options.
hansel says
But i thought obama the moron said they have a fatwa for no nukes.. maybe he should negotiate for a fatwa for violence as well…
Even the people of Iran say they dont want peace yet obama is convinced that all they are asking for is jobs.. wat a dumb commander in chief..
Keil says
The militia leader doesn’t know or is aware of his wicked wishes will slash back. It’s how reality works. The mechanism has many names one of them is karma.
sidney penny says
“Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen “will have a fate like the fate of Saddam Hussein.””
It is the USA that got rid of Saddam Hussien not Iran.
Godwin says
He wants to destroy Israel. But Saudi n Gulf states are destroying his ally, the Shia Houthis.
Godwin says
And he cannot do a thing in revenge, except issuing empty threats.
pongidae rex says
The profound tragedy of Iran, and all other Muslim invaded and subjugated countries, is that now they are on the march to spread the same alien Arab ideology that destroyed their ancient civilization.