Huffington Post TEHRAN — The top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that his country’s missiles will ensure “nothing will remain” of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.
Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari also warned that Iran might close the Straits of Hormuz if it is attacked, withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and hit U.S. bases in the Middle East.
Such warnings and references to Israel’s destruction have been made before by Iranian officials. But Gen. Jafari’s comments to a Tehran news conference were an unusually detailed, strongly worded and comprehensive listing of the means that Iran says it has to retaliate against a strike on its nuclear facilities.
The U.S. and Israel have left open the possibility of such a strike if Iran does not back down from what they say are a push to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
“Our response to Israel is clear: I think nothing will remain of Israel (should it attack Iran). Given Israel’s small land area and its vulnerability to a massive volume of Iran’s missiles, I don’t think any spot in Israel will remain safe,” he said.
He said Iran’s response to any attack will begin near the Israeli border. The Islamic Republic has close ties with militants in Gaza and Lebanon, both of whom have rocket arsenals that could be used for cross-border strikes.
He said he did not believe however that Israel would attack on its own. Should the U.S. launch a strike, Jafari suggested that Iran could respond with missile salvos at U.S. bases in the Gulf.
“The US military bases sprawled around Iran are considered a big vulnerability. Even the missile shields that they have set up, based on information we have, could only work for a few missiles but when exposed to a massive volume of missiles, the shields will lose their efficiency and will not work,” he said.
He also said that Iran warned that oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz will be in jeopardy if a war breaks out between Iran and the United States. Iranian officials have previously threatened to close the waterway, the route for a fifth of the world’s oil, but less frequently in recent months.
“If a war breaks out where one side is Iran and the other side is the West and U.S., it’s natural that a problem should occur in the Strait of Hormuz. Export of energy will be harmed. It’s natural that this will happen,” he said.
Gen. Jafari said that, if attacked, Iran will no longer be committed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under whose terms U.N. inspectors visit Iranian nuclear sites. He said however that this does not mean that Iran would build a nuclear weapon.
“If the world and international organizations fail to prevent such an attack, it’s natural that Iran’s commitments (to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty) would naturally change and the situation would be different from the past. These are the risks and consequences that such an attack will bring about, and these matters would be a deterrent.”
Jafari’s comments come as U.S.-led naval forces from the West and Arab allies gather for naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf that include mine-sweeping exercises.
Good for Iran! They have every right to defend themselves from those intent on starting wars with them. They haven’t attacked any nation for centuries, yet those intent on taking their oil and other resources would have the world believe otherwise. The only nation on Earth that has ever used atomic weapons is the United States of America. May God save us from the Zionists in Israel and those entrenched in the governments of their allies (including the USA)!
Yep. Agreed.
The oil resources are a big temptation for the West… yes.
But, don’t forget the main reason… the SAME reason Gaddafi was killed in Libya…
Iran does not have a Rothschild controlled debt-based money system and is starting to trade their oil for gold… not Fiat western dollars.
This is the main reason they are targeted.
International banksters are at the root of all modern wars… period.
Yep, to you as well. lol
May god save us all from these savages whom wants to start a war with no reason other then greed.
And Israel can go to hell; a country that was born by wars, lived by wars grew by wars, existed by wars, and wants to expand by wars.
And might even just die by wars. Convenient. lol
“The top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that his country’s missiles will ensure “nothing will remain” of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.”
I’d be more than happy to supply the wreath if they could pull THAT one off.
When they say “nothing” I hope they mean “nothing”.
Well “something” is better than “nothing”. LOL
Unfortunately, the innocent Palestinians that they stole the land from would end up as collateral damage.
What worries me the most is that Russia and China have said many, many times that if Israel or America attacks Iran they will attack America in retaliation. Unlike U.S. rockets that fly in a predictable trajectory theirs wobble around making them almost impossible to take down. This war will not be just somewhere over seas, it will also be on American soil. If the government had any brains at all they would pull all of out troops out of the middle east immediately. They are not only putting our soldiers in danger, but the American people as well.
America will only change through suffering. That’s pure and simple the message.
Nobody likes America and its mostly brainwashed population anymore – the Americans have replaced the Nazis and they didn’t notice.
‘Brainwashed.’
The Nazi’s threw the central bankers out, the Americans are like in WW2 fighting for the central bankers.
How are they the same without Orwellizing the whole situation?
btw, just reveal your country of origin, so we can verify how your country is controlled by zionist interests in spite of what you believe to the opposite.
“Nobody likes America and its mostly brainwashed population anymore – the Americans have replaced the Nazis and they didn’t notice.”
Nail hit soundly on the head there methinks
@ Jeff_T: The government – brains?
Surely you jest.
Gen. Jafari is being extremely reckless in his language. To express this level of extreme belligerence at nuclear powers shows he does not understand that were he to attempt to obliterate Israel, Israel’s nukes emerging atop cruise missiles from her Dolphin class subs alone would turn all of Iran’s major cities into green glass.
But for Jews that won’t be enough, as Israel has air bases in Azerbaijan from which Israeli aircraft would certainly leave with nukes on board for Iran.
While some of these aircraft will get shot down, the others will deliver their nukes, and nukes aren’t just bigger bombs, each on its own is a city killer.
A dozen major cities gone – Iran gone, but plenty more nukes on the way from planes shooting out from undercover airfields in Israel will still be dropped, even one per town of a mere 100,000. Why such vast overkill ? For fun, and also that theirs is a vengeful God.
It would be far more conciliatory were Gen. Jafari to have said,”In the event of Iran being destroyed, only then will we destroy Israel, as by then we will have nothing left to lose”.
The Jews will show their understanding by replacing Netanyahu with someone else next month.
Above is about what Israel would do; space does not permit describing what America in turn would do. But perhaps no space is needed in any case.
Read the other article about the Russian made Sunburn missiles and think again………….
@michael mazur ,
Hi Michael, good post except for this part–”It would be far more conciliatory were Gen. Jafari to have said,”In the event of Iran being destroyed, only then will we destroy Israel, as by then we will have nothing left to lose”.–
If Iran is first destroyed I don’t think they would be capable of destroying that rabid Rothschild stolen country because there would be nothing left of Iran to fight back with!
@michael mazur ,
…… extremely reckless in his language?????????
Fact that a nuclear armed isreal is threatening war on the none nuclear nation of Iran, and further so openly and quickly starting to Nuke Iran is not a reckless language?
Evidently the baby killing granny bashing, isreali forces have learned to be aggressive and get away with their aggression, well the times are changing. These mercenaries will soon find that walking the walk is going to be a whole lot more tougher than what they have imagined.
Iran is vast enough to take the nukes and survive, but that little strip of land, come US land based aircraft carrier cannot take much of a beating. In fact the world saw how Lebanese militia handed the butts of the israeli forces back to them on a platter. Evidently isrealis have forgotten they were watching the isreali tanks scurrying like cockroaches out of the kill zones that were supposed to have been cleared over and again.
Iran has not attacked anywhere for the last two hundred years, that somehow does not mean that if an aggressive warmongering bunch of mercenaries bent on attacking them, get on with their attacks, Iranians will turn the other cheek and not hit back harder.
The comical missile shield and gas masks are not going to shield isreal, and if the war carries on for more than thirty days, isreal would be a bankrupt and empty joint, anyone who is living in isreal knows this fact. However those diaspora zionists are far too puffed up with their own importance to understand the actualities, hence the stupid remark about reconciliation!
It is not Iran that is threatening isreal with war, it is the paranoid lunatics in isreal who are threatening war on Iran.
“It is not Iran that is threatening isreal with war, it is the paranoid lunatics in isreal who are threatening war on Iran.”
And are taking the world down with them, if the world doesn’t fight for them and the glorious pedestal they put themselves on, while claiming we “the others” inhabiting this planet are but mere animals.
The politicians that represent me, might be a worthless spineless bunch of bought of traitors that would order the kill of others before dissapointing their masters, but that doesn’t mean that I would fight that war.
6.5 billion others doing the same thing. And that war is over before it started.
No 30 Silver for me Israel. You can do your own dirty deeds.
And you might find out, that god allows the chosen to die just as horrible deaths as any other human being.
”that god allows the chosen to die just as horrible deaths as any other human being.” – who says that they are chosen?
no god would ever choose such parasites abd for what purpose.
but those self proclaimed ‘chosen ones’ are definitely chosen to burn in hell for all eternity.