With so many allies inside the U.S. working for the same goal, Mousavi’s prediction is not so wild. But there are some others working to stop the designs of the Islamic Republic as well.
“Iranian Army Chief-of-Staff Abdolrahim Mousavi: We Will Crush the Murderous America, Put an End to the Zionist Regime,” MEMRI, March 24, 2018:
Iranian Army Chief-of-Staff Abdolrahim Mousavi said that “we have succeeded in defeating all the Satanic forces that wanted to shatter the front of the resistance” and that “we will be able to crush the murderous America at the height of its power, and Allah willing, to put an end to the Zionist regime in less than 25 years.” He was interviewed by the Tasnim News Agency at the Rahian-e Noor Museum of the Iran-Iraq War on March 24.
Abdolrahim Mousavi: “Our enemies, headed by the criminal America and illegitimate Zionist regime, understand that if the Iranian people remains loyal to the values, education, and tradition [of the Islamic Revolution], [America] will not maintain its status as a superpower, and the Zionist regime will not be able to continue its accursed existence.
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“We have succeeded in defeating all the Satanic forces that wanted to shatter the front of the resistance. We will be able to crush the murderous America at the height of its power, and Allah willing, to put an end to the Zionist regime in less than 25 years.”
Steve says
LOL, Bagdad Bob’s Iranian cousin.
J D S says
Great good gobs of gobbledygook goose grease…It’s time for Istanbul to once again to become Constantinople.
Buraq says
Iranian Army Chief-of-Staff, Abdolrahim Mousavi, obviously doesn’t know the problems Iran will face over the next 25 years! All the dams in Iran are down to 30% of their capacity due to years of low rainfall; there has been a huge outbreak of HIV among the 18 to 35 age group recently, and the Iranian economy is imploding because the available funds to solve these domestic problems is being squandered on futile military adventures abroad.
It may well be the case that Iran will cease to exist as a functioning State within the next 25 years! Abdolrahim is a clown!
gravenimage says
Totalitarian states tend to double down on their saber-rattling when they have internal problems.
Anne Smith says
That is very true. Saddam Hussein kept boasting about his nuclear weapons, mainly to try to put the fear of his regime into Iran. He didn’t have any and his hubris and boastfulness, which seem to be an essential part of the Islamic world, convinced Bush and Blair that he had far more power at his disposal than he really had. Cue for their foolish intervention into Iraq.
The Iraq War was in great part brought about by his boastful bragging. No doubt the muppets in the Iranian army are indulging in the same practice.
gravenimage says
True, Anne.
JM says
To Buraq
Good points. The fanatical theocrats in Teheran still have in their corner the expected 12th Imam (aka the Mahdi) and the apocalypse, and of course the salivating prospect of annihilating Israel. But they don’t have Barack Hussein Obama at their beck and call anymore. Nor can they expect to continue receiving billions of dollars of sanctions relief. The poor dears won’t even receive the occasional little freebie like 400 million dollars in cash denominated in Swiss francs, Euros, and other currencies, delivered in an unmarked cargo plane under cover of darkness.
And the mullahs also have a pesky and growing hijab problem, which might become dangerous to their murderous thugocracy. And If that happens, then Brooklyn’s pride Linda SourSewer and her fellow “committed, vocal, and courageous” Third Wave feminist activists won’t find a rock to crawl under and hide.
Westman says
The Islamic Regime will be overthrown by its own citizens before the next 10 years are up.
If Abdolrahim Mousavi doesn’t understand that his primary enemy is Saudi Arabia, backed by the US, and not Israel, then he is misplaced in his military position and is pushing Iran toward a destruction it has never known.
Eight years of war with another incompetent Iraq military has not prepared Iran for what happened when the US went to war against Iraq. How long did Saddam’s army last?
Abdolrahim Mousavi seems unable to grasp that the entire Sunni world, 90% of Islam, would applaud the destruction of the Iranian regime – so much so that SA would likely join in the war.
Let’s hope the Iranian people, talented Persians with real potential, get rid of their Islamic tyrants instead of suffering in a horrible war started by the mad dogs of Qom and Tehran.
Julea Bacall says
They see it like this: Iran, Russia, Assad, Hezbollah &when push comes to shove Turkey, Qatar, Gaza,and various renegade gangs VS US/EU/Gulf AND…….Ending with China going with more on Russia side but……
ConanKong says
You and what army. Don’t let your mouth write a check your butt can’t cash
Bill says
He may be right. Had Hillary been elected, it would have been accomplished already.
Eur says
It is clear that these types of discourses are for internal consumption, as they do in Korea. In any case, do not underestimate the Islamic regimes, they only need to win once. America can be wrong, have a wrong interventionist policy … but it is a democracy. If Muslims (including those who live in the West) win only once … they will destroy democracy, since for them there is no respect for minorities, the majority crushes the rest. Muslims have the time and demographics in their favor … if nothing changes … they will win.
Benedict says
A tête-à-tête with the pope could probably pacify this deluded or ignorant Muslim top dog – Allah willing.
Walter Sieruk says
The folly and foolishness of Obama and Kerry must have no limit that they had felt they could have come to a worthwhile deal of good value with that tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran by attempting to work out a compromise with those Muslim tyrants in power in Iran. The outcome of foolishly trying to work out a compromise resulted that the hoax and farce of a “deal.” A former US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt , had well-spoken when he said “There has never been – there never can be – successful compromise between good and evil.”
CogitoErgoSum says
What is the best thing that could happen for the people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-i00Xe-e4
mortimer says
Obama was as naïve as Carter, proving that NAIVETY has nothing to do with race.
gravenimage says
Iranian army top dog: We will crush US and “put an end to the Zionist regime in less than 25 years”
……………………
Is this what Obama had in mind?
OK…it probably was…
Sarah says
Yeah, I’d like to see them try that. If America was genuinely and sincerely at threat from Iran – if Iran was absolutely on the physical warpath and was gunning for America, then America would use its nuclear armament. Guaranteed. In defense of the Homeland and all that. There are more than 7000 nuclear warheads lying around on US soil and frankly, I would be astounded if that number was accurate. I have a feeling its a hell of a lot higher when you count warheads the US has stashed at strategic points all around the world. We know Australia houses quite a number of them for the USA, alone.
Plus then there’s the MOABs. Let’s not forget those. They’re pretty destructive and are a quick way to annihilate enemy infrastructure and supply routes.
Then there’s the fact that the United States is number 1 on the list of nations categorized by military strength. Iran doesn’t even make the top 20.
Then there are active military personnel numbers. The United States has THREE TIMES the number of active military personnel to Iran. Both nations spend around 3-4% of their GDP on their military. But given the US’s size, that means it burns through more than 500 billion dollars every single year, whilst Iran burns through just over 12 billion dollars. The two aren’t even comparable, let’s face it.
The US has around 4 times the number of tanks, more than 46,000 armoured fighting vehicles compared to Iran’s 1400. The US has around 4 times the number of self-propelled artillery, about 12,000 aircraft to Iran’s less than 1000. Good luck with Iran bringing the actual fight to the United States in a geographic sense.
Both nations have similar numbers in naval equipment, although Iran doesn’t have any aircraft carriers, or any destroyers and about half the number of submarines to the US.
It’s not exactly going to be a fair fight – and let’s face it. Iran will only crush the United State’s in a fevered mastubatory fantasy. It is in no way, remotely feasible for Iran to do what they are (as usual) threatening to do.
Bill says
I am not as confident. We have exhausted many resources in the Middle East on objectives that became nearly impossible to achieve once our “allies” in Pakistan decided to give shelter to the Taliban and other terrorist groups.
Under Obama/Hillary/Kerry we wasted more resources conducing a phony war on ISIS so that Obama could politically provide the groundwork for the international caliphate and the rapid spread of global terrorism.
Obama pretty much gave Iran their nuclear weapons program and billions in unmarked cash to support terror attacks against the US and Europe. Now we devote military resources to playing whack a mole in the mideast. It was his treason, but the task of the military to prepare for the consequences of it remains, spreading us thin. Obama, through Valerie Jarrett, worked relentlessly to purge our fighting generals and replace them with sycophants better suited to fight social justice battles in courts and to lose battles in the field. His depressing effect on the fighting spirit of the troops was well-known, and intentional.
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies (NSA, CIA and FBI) for 8 long years and continuing to this day were re-tasked to spy on American citizens and political opposition — not our enemies. High ranking political officials compromised classified information routinely and went unpunished. Today we learn that Congressional Democrats waived background checks on the Pakistani thugs that were given access to classified information, the full extent of which we can only guess at and our government still refuses to even chastise the Representatives let alone prosecute anyone for it. .
I do not believe we would be able to stop a North Korean invasion and certainly not if engaged seriously anywhere else at the same time.
While we have our superiority in aircraft carriers, our reliance on them seems out of balance. I predict they are already the “Dreadnought” of 1940, the example of a vulnerable weapons system believed to be invulnerable at the time. The battleship ruled warfare from the late 1800’s to 1940. Maybe 50 years. We are fighting the “last war” with our aircraft carriers. It takes more and more effort to defend them. I have no special information, but I believe that advances in missile technology will render them vulnerable and as easily targeted and defeated as floating watermelons. That just seems to be the way history plays out. The carrier platform has driven our warfare strategy and tactics since 1941. That is going on near 80 years now. China, Russia, someone else have figured them out by now. That is just how it goes.
Finally, we have become so dependent on electronic and space based systems, our military forces can’t move a mile without satellite GPS dependency. We no longer teach celestial navigation.
Iran may be blustering, and they may not be able to do all that they threaten. But I am not so sure we would succeed so easily against them either. Were such a conflict to happen, we would be incredibly vulnerable everywhere else.
Undaunted says
Say when.
Peace says
Trump will convince the Saudi’s to sort it out, and most likely make them pay for it as well,
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
The apartheid evil united states has now lost middleast region due to mad devil Trump’s open hostility towards all muslims.The idiot saudi monarchs relied upon by evil united states to trigger sectarian war among muslims is becoming more isolated after the defeate of terrorist groups sponsored through them.As such there is no powerful muslim nation Willing to fight proxy war against Iran in the region and the idiot monarchs cannot fight Iran for even one week. For evil united states to fight Iran directly is no longer feasible. It means the testacles of evil united states are now cut off, and its economy Will be adversly affected as it has started declining to recesssion then to dépression.
Baucent says
Only in your mad evil dreams mate.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
It means the testacles of evil united states are now cut off, and its economy Will be adversly affected as it has started declining to recesssion then to dépression.
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How many times now has Ibrahim itace muhammed claimed that Muslims have destroyed the US economy? He trots this out at least every couple of weeks.
Never mind that America is in the midst of one of the longest economic booms in her history.
Of course, even in a recession, the US economy is far more robust than any of the stagnant polities in Dar-al-Islam.
And this is just more proof that he is obsessed with Infidel men’s genitals. *Very* creepy.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
ï mean the testacles of hegemony is now cut off in the région and military build up there is mère waste of resources like heavy losses in human and material resources lost during invasion of Iraq. Fools !!
CogitoErgoSum says
Thanks for reminding us about castration, Ibrahim. Yes, Muslims find cutting off the testicles of infidel men (and raping their women too) to be very beneficial in the quest to propagate Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9EQ_hvr0c
gravenimage says
True.
Baucent says
Nothing but bravado, a lot of hot air. Iran has it’s own problems as an arid country dependent on oil exports. Not only is world oil supply increasing (particularly from US) but as electric technology and super efficient petroleum engines are refined, there’s more likelihood of prolonged lower oil prices. This would undermine a lot of Iran’s development ambitions even if the Mullahs manage to hang on to power. And that is not certain either.
b.a. freeman says
i believe him.
if MH-370, the missing malaysian airliner, was landed on a temporary landing strip in the islands of indonesia off the coast of the state of aceh, then refueled and flown to iran, the IFF electronics could be replaced with “failed” electronics from other planes (and not necessarily iranian planes, either, if the cooperation of techs in other countries could be had…). a tanker aircraft, the MH-370 aircraft, and a fighter, both refueled from the tanker, could be sent to the western atlantic, where they could pick up and tail a flight from just about any nation; the fighter could shoot down the doomed plane in mid-ocean, then turn on the hacked electronics in MH-370, taken from other planes, and have the dead plane’s IFF id put into it. it would be a flight for NYC or DC; either would do as a prime target, but DC would be best to behead the great satan. the plane would not be carrying chemical explosives, or even biological weapons; instead, it would be a home-grown nuke. the plane would begin its descent under air traffic control, when suddenly the nation would become headless – no government, no military commanders, and worst of all, no idea who did the deed. it might be dicey for the iranians, but the shia want to see the end times come, anyway, with the return of the 12th imam, so a full-blown nuclear war, with iran turned to a sea of glass that glows at night, is OK with them, since it would certainly bring about the “end times.”
just sayin’ …
mortimer says
How can Chief-of-Staff Abdolrahim Mousavi lower himself to that level.
Time for you to take a shower, isn’t Abi, you whore.
Dragan Krstic says
During 2008 and 2010 Slovenian Bank NLB/Nova Ljubljanska banka/ washed 1 billiard € of Iranian black money.
Slovenia is member of EU, Brussels is informed about this crime but there is no consequences at all
Arryn says
STOP SHITTING FROM YOU MOUTH, DUMB MUSLIM JACKASS. YOU WILL GET YOUR ANSWER ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. “THAT IS ALL YOU IRANIAN MUSLIM DO, “SHIT FROM YOUR MOUTHS”
FYI says
David vs Goliath II
God of Israel(the real deal) vs the counterfeit allah-baal
You can confidently put your money on David:tell the muslims to put all their money on Goliath
telling them”Goliath will surely win;it’s a lock”
Noelene Kuzman says
Did anyone else notice the sign in the background in Arabic, with “We did it” in English underneath it? What did they do?