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Iranian General Threatens Surprise Attack On Israel
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This undated photo released Monday,
Aug. 25, 2014 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,
claims to show the wreckage of an Israeli drone
which Iran claims it shot down near an Iranian
nuclear site / AP / Free Beacon
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Iranian military leaders on Tuesday vowed that Tehran would take military action against Israel in response to an alleged Israeli drone that was shot down in Iran on Sunday.
Iran “will not give a diplomatic response,” but will air its grievances with Israel on the “battlefield,” senior Iranian generals were quoted as saying on Tuesday.
“Our response to this aggression will not be diplomatic, we will retaliate in the battlefield, but will not necessarily announce it,” Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Lieutenant Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) was quoted as saying during a ceremony on Tuesday meant to commemorate “martyred” Iranian military personnel.
“The enemy will see and understand it,” Salami was quoted as saying by the semi official Fars News Agency. “We never step back (in the confrontation) against the enemy. The Islamic Republic is powerful and is capable of confronting any power at any level and we never bring down the level of our goals.”
The threat of a surprise attack against Israel for its apparent attempts to send a spy drone into Tehran came just a day after Iranian government officials threatened to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court.
Iranian military leaders announced over the weekend that they had used a surface-to-air missile to shoot down a drone that it claimed was an Israeli-made Hermes 450 unmanned plane. The drone was allegedly on its way to the Natanz nuclear enrichment site, which is believed to be part of Iran’s clandestine attempts to build a nuclear weapon.
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A few days ago, Khamenei had a speech during which he actually called for waging war against Israel and denounced the attempts for ceasefire, while all Palestinians and in particular President Mahmoud Abbas are putting all efforts to achieve that.
ReplyDeleteThis should tell you how the Iranian regime benefits from external crisis at the price of the lives of over 1300 Palestinians to keep everyone busy and away from more closer to home issues, such as Iraq's turmoil and Syria, and the failure in the nuclear negotiations.
This has been the case with the regime in the past 3 decades. Once it was the Iran-Iraq war, then the Hezbullah, Salman Rushdi, etc.
Regarding Gaza, while it is obvious that there should be an end to the killing of the civilians, the Iranian government is playing dubiously and by pretending to be far more concerned about the Palestinians (even more than their president Abbas) is actually supporting more bloodshed there. The only thing they really don't care about is the plight of the Palestinians and the desperate situation in Gazs, without any outside support, and now without even electricity and lots of injuries and dead bodies.