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“IRGC General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi: The Only Fitting Revenge For Soleimani’s Assassination Is To Drive The U.S. Out Of The Middle East, Erase Israel,” MEMRI, December 27, 2020:
General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, the IRGC Deputy Commander-in-Chief for Coordination, said in a December 27, 2020 interview on Channel 3 (Iran)…
Mohammad Reza Naghdi: “The coming hard revenge [for Soleimani’s assassination] should be carried out by the youth of this country and the Islamic nation, in the form of driving America out [of the region] and erasing the Zionist regime. Anything less than that would not be [sufficient] revenge for the martyr Soleimani. People must not ask for a missile to strike here or there. No! America must be removed from the region. It must be erased [from the region’s map].
“The Americans must not write letters to the youth of the region, begging them not to attack them now, claiming that now is not the time for that. The youth of the region know their job, and they will do what needs to be done. In those very days, these people will erase the Zionist regime, Allah willing, and they will hang the pictures and banner of the martyr Soleimani, the martyr Abu Mahdi [Al-Muhandis], and all the great martyrs of the resistance on the walls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This will happen soon.”
Phil Copson says
I expect that the brave Mr M-R Naghdi will be the first to set an example to the doomed youth of Iran – advancing rifle-in-hand to drive out the Americans and slaughter the Israelis – oh, no – he won’t, will he ?
mortimer says
General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi will be on the hit list when he enters Iraq to plan attacks on Americans. Western military intel is tracking his whereabouts now.
Westman says
The leadership of Iran are all tyrannical cowards who don’t have a pang of conscience while ordering the deaths of any Iranian who questions nor in sending any soldier, child, or elderly person to clear a minefield with their bodies.
The best advice we can give General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi is: Stay away from Iraqi airports.
Iranian “leadership” – sponsor of terrorist groups since 1979.
Hezbollah, proxy of Iran – created in 1982 with funding and training from Iran,
Hamas, proxy of Iran – created in 1987, during First Intifada.
mortimer says
Islamic ‘REVENGE’ need not be proportional or ‘JUSTLY TARGETED’ towards the person responsible for killing a Muslim. No, the revenge could be taken on a target unrelated to the person responsible. In this case, Israel is not a part of the USAF which took out General Soleimani as he was planning attacks on Americans.
Retribution is a COMPULSORY (i.e. non-optional) Islamic teaching! Even though Muslims bring the Honor-Shame Paradigm with them wherever they go. Muslims think ‘honor’ is more important than money or life.
Honor is restored to a Muslim through the shedding of blood. No kafir is ‘innocent’. All kafirs deserve to be killed only because they reject Mohammed. The citizens of an entire kafir country can be held responsible because they pay taxes to support their military which attacks jihadists overseas. Islam thus considers all civilians legitimate targets for revenge in settling a matter of Islamic honor.
-K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”
-K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”
-K.5:33 “The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari
Islam is the religion of sacred revenge murder/assassination. Allah says so.
john smith says
They are getting braver by the day, now they Know that Trump could be on his way out.
somehistory says
“Americans must not write letters to the (iranian) youth,”….”must not,”…that’s an order!
Many Americans have forgotten how to write letters…emails and text messages are what most people use to communicate. How about if Americans write emails and text these “youth of the region”?
Do Americans have any addresses for those “youth”? If so, let’s defy the order from this moslim bigshot and write letters letting them know they serve satan the devil when they worship according to the filthy book of islam.
satan is going down in flames soon. Sooner than this fool destroys America or Israel..
Mojdeh says
IAEA Confirms Iran Has Begun Process Of Enriching Uranium To 20%
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed in a report to member states that Iran has begun the process of enriching uranium to 20 percent, the highest level since its 2015 deal with world powers, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s ambassador to the agency said on Monday [January 4].
In a tweet, Gharibabadi, wrote that the agency’s director Rafael Grossi had confirmed that “a cylinder containing 137.2 kg of uranium (enriched) up to 4.1% has been connected to the feeding line and production of UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) enriched up to 20% started.”
Earlier on Monday Ali Rabiei, the Iranian government spokesman, said the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) had begun the process to enrich to 20 percent, which would be Iran’s latest breach of its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers – the JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – since United States President Donald Trump abandoned the agreement in 2018 and imposed stringent sanctions.
“In the last few days the president issued the order for starting 20 percent enrichment and a few hours ago the process of injection of gas [into centrifuges] began following the preliminary stages including informing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and delivery of the planning form in accordance with Iran’s commitments under the JCPOA,” Rabiei told Mehr news agency.
Rabiei said the first batch of uranium hexafluoride, a gas used in uranium enrichment, would be produced within hours. UF6 is used in enrichment to all levels, and is not specific to enrichment to 20 percent.
Iran reached 20 percent enrichment before the JCPOA was agreed in 2015 but since then has reached a 4.5 percent maximum, well short of 90 percent weapons grade but higher than the 3.67% cap set by the JCPOA.
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), on Saturday said he awaited an order from President Hassan Rouhani to order the implementation of legislation passed last month by Iran’s parliament mandating the government, if US sanctions against Iran were not lifted, to start 20 percent enrichment, install 1,000 advanced centrifuges, and produce at least 120 kg of highly enriched uranium (which is at least 20 percent) within two months of the bill’s approval.
Rabiei stressed that the government was committed to implementing parliament’s mandate although it did not consider it “expedient.” On December 31 Iran informed the IAEA of its intention to produce uranium enriched to 20 percent.
On Monday, before Rabiei’s announcement, Peter Stano, the European Union’s Lead Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, wrote in email to Iran International TV that enrichment to 20 percent “would constitute a considerable departure from Iran’s nuclear commitments under the JCPOA with serious nuclear non-proliferation implications.”
The EU spokesman stressed the EU closely followed IAEA monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program. wrote. “Our assessment of Iran’s nuclear program is based on actions that Iran has taken, as confirmed by the IAEA, not based on announcements,” Stano wrote.
Rouhani and US President-elect Joe Biden have expressed support for Iran and the US reviving the JCPOA – essentially a quid pro quo under which Tehran would reduce its nuclear program and Washington ease sanctions. Trump leaves office on January 20.
Westman says
You can be certain that Israel is watching closely and will take action when it determines that an intolerable level has been reached.
Walter Sieruk says
To comment on this from the Divine perspective and then the humans view is the following .
There is no need nor there a reason to keyboard the name of the Iranian warlord general who was exterminated by a US military drone strike.
For the Bible informs its reader “The name of the wicked shall rot.” Proverbs 10:7. [K.J.V.]
Then the human philosophical is that this jihad -minded dangerous malicious murderous commander had to be eliminated by airborne military might was very appropriate and fitting way to take out that malice-filled terrible man . For Thomas Jefferson wrote “With every barbarous people…force is law..”
Walter Sieruk says
Wwn that Iranian general declared that vicious Iranian Iranian warlord chief Soleimani a “martyr” he was showing his own blind ignorance.
This is because Soleimani was not really a martyr but an aggressive , dangerous jihad minded murdering military commander and for many years he headed violent and deadly military attacks on people. He always engaged in deadly violence so he then died by deadly violence.
As Jesus said “All that take up the sword shall perish with the sword. ” Matthew 26;52. [K.J.V.]
Likewise, Galatians 6:7. reads “Whatever a man soweth , that he shall also reap.”
Furthermore,after Soleimani died he has a sudden and very harsh reality reality check . For instead of finding himself in a paradise with many virgins ,as the Quran false promises, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of hell. Matthew 719,20, Luke 16:19-31.As Galatians 6:.7 informs the reader that murder “shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven.”
Soleimani was a deluded fool for trusting the religious fantasy stories of the Quran of a sex-filled paradise waiting for him if he dies fighting for cause of Islam.
The Bible even warns against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4.. also such deceived and deluded men as Solemani had been predicted about and written down in the Bible . For Second Timothy 4 3,4.
It reads “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers ; and they shall turn their ears from the truth,and shall be turned unto fables.”
In great and wonderful contrast to deluded and deceived jihad-minded Muslims as Soleimani ,genuine Christians have the reality found and explained in Second Peter 1;16 which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables. when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”