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2016: Iran threatens to turn Tel Aviv, Haifa to “dust.” 2020: Iran threatens to turn Tel Aviv, Haifa to “dust.”

Jan 7, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

The Democratic Party and the Left in general are in a fine froth against President Trump, claiming that the killing of Iranian Quds Force top dog Qassem Soleimani will lead to World War III. They seem to imagine that Iran was favorably disposed, or at least neutral, toward the United States before this, but now they’re enflamed. Let’s see about that:

The article “Iran parades new weapons at time of Gulf tension with U.S.,” by Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters, September 21, 2016, says this: “A banner on the side of a truck carrying the new missile bore a threat to Iran’s arch-foe Israel: ‘If the leaders of the Zionist regime make a mistake then the Islamic Republic will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust.’”

And in the article below, Mohsen Rezai says: “If America takes any measures after our military response, we will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust.”

Big change!

“Iran ex-Guards chief vows to turn Tel Aviv ‘to dust,'” AFP, January 5, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Tehran (AFP) – A former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened on Sunday to turn the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv “to dust” if the US attacks targets in Iran.

“If America takes any measures after our military response, we will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust,” Mohsen Rezai, who currently heads the Expediency Council, a top state body, said in a Tweet.

His warning came after President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the US would target 52 sites “important to Iran & Iranian culture” and hit them “very fast and very hard” if the Islamic republic attacked American personnel or assets.

In a saber-rattling tweet that defended Friday’s US drone strike assassination of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, Trump said 52 represents the number of Americans held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran for more than a year starting in late 1979.

“Mr Trump, you tweeted that you will attack 52 targets in Iran?” Rezai was also quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency.

“You have said that you will attack again if Iran gets revenge? Be sure that Iran will turn Haifa and Israel’s centres to dust in a way that Israel would be erased from the face of the earth,” he warned….

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 11:14 am

    What does Israel have to do with the Iran? Not much. It’s merely an excuse for jihad. The mullahocracy makes no effort to disguise its megalomanic plan to take over the world.

    What a crock. There is virtually no change in the attitude of Iran since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power. The Iranian rigged government is guaranteed to produce rigid, unchanging uniformity of thought.

    The Iranian mullahocracy will not and cannot change until there are several dozen funerals. The world should focus on the extreme corruption of those kleptocrats.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jan 7, 2020 at 1:08 pm

      “Islam requires the earth —not just a portion, but the whole planet” – Maududi

      https://www.varight.com/news/is-islam-a-religion-or-military-ideology/

  2. Jayell says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 11:46 am

    “2016: Iran threatens to turn Tel Aviv, Haifa to “dust.”
    2020: Iran threatens to turn Tel Aviv, Haifa to “dust.”…..”

    What a superb headline. Says it all. So what’s next? ‘Watch this space in 2024’?

    • Eur says

      Jan 7, 2020 at 11:54 am

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f31mB6apCoE
      Iran lobster in this case

    • Jerome Henen says

      Jan 8, 2020 at 1:26 pm

      MADD = MUTUALLY ASSURED DUST TO DUST.

  3. Bishop Guy Leven-Torres says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 12:20 pm

    “Mohammed’s Mules” is a good nicknamed for these 7th Century reprobates. Stubborn to the point of insanity.

    Note to Lead Mule. We in the West do not want to become part of Islam. You must be very interested in glass perhaps? Keep on taunting the Americans and I am most certain they will oblige by turning Tehran into a plain of solid glass. I refer you to 1950’s H Bomb tests.

  4. Frank Anderson says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    Threatening Israel is not a rational act. They don’t wait to be attacked before acting in perfectly reasonable and lawful self-defense. Israel has the means of delivery and the right weapons to hurt (eliminate) Iran as a threat in the future. There was NOTHING between the Israeli armed forces and Damascus and Cairo in 1973.

    Egypt had sense enough to realize how close it came to total slaughter of its armed forces and devastation of its country that it made and keeps peace with Israel. Syria is still testing. Syria may find out the hard way what being too close to Iran costs.

    “Peace at any price” has never accomplished anything except war. God Bless Israel and all who help it prosper.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 7, 2020 at 7:37 pm

      Hear, hear, Frank!

    • Jerome Henen says

      Jan 8, 2020 at 1:29 pm

      I second that thought! I think all this bluster and bellicoseness is designed to smear Trump as a warmonger – all part of the despicable rats’ plan to graft the the 2020 election their way.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 8, 2020 at 1:36 pm

        Yep.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 3:15 pm

    Those statements from the officials that “mullah tyranny” of Iran about taking vengeance against America and Israel for the death of Soleimani only proves from the officials of that “mullah tyranny the old saying to be true.

    The saying is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”

  6. don vito says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    The threat iran is making is a war crime? Yes, yes it is. No dhimmicrat takedown of this war crime threat? When good people do nothing then………..evil triumphs. Do the dhimmicrats want evil to triumph? Yes. yes they do. The party of traitors, collaborators, and sympathizers.

    • Jerome Henen says

      Jan 8, 2020 at 1:31 pm

      Quite right Don vito!!!

  7. Gork says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    Thanks Obama. Once they can build their own nuclear weapons, we’ll all be safe, won’t we?

  8. Fred Middleton says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    Iran has been saying this since about 1980.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    2016: Iran threatens to turn Tel Aviv, Haifa to “dust.”
    2020: Iran threatens to turn Tel Aviv, Haifa to “dust.”
    ………………………………

    I’m sensin’ a theme here…

  10. Jim says

    Jan 8, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    I’ll bet they threatened to turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust even after Obama paid them that huge Jizya payment.

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