Israeli F-35 fighter jets fly in formation during the military’s Blue Flag exercise in October 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)
President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi made a direct threat against the safety and even the very existence of the State of Israel. The threat was meant as a warning against Israel that it should not consider attacking Iran and it came as a wave of more than 100 rockets were launched against civilian targets in Israel by terrorists groups based in the Gaza Strip
In an interview with Lebanon’s pro-Hezbollah Al Mayadeen network, aired Tuesday Raisi said, “Iran’s power today is within the country, and Iran’s power in the region is of an unmistakable magnitude.”
“The first blunder and step made by the Zionist entity will be its last, and there will no longer be this thing called the Zionist entity to even take another step,” added Raisi. “We have said and announced this in various forums, and they know very well that we are serious about this view, this step, and this decision.”
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Israel continues to lobby world governments to do more to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. This is probably the one area where its current government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in full agreement with its predecessor that was led first by Naftali Bennet and then by the current leader of the opposition in the Knesset Yair Lapid.
Every time that an Israeli cabinet minister, any minister, meets with his counterpart in either Israel or abroad the subject of the Iranian threat is broached. And Israel also lobbies heavily for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be labeled a terrorist organization by world governments.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohn was in Brussels Tuesday where he met with EU officials and discussed the ongoing threat Iran poses to world safety. In a meeting with the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola he also discussed how the IRGC acts on behalf of Iran in supplying arms to terrorist groups.
“Europe understands the danger of the Iranian reign of terror now more than ever,” said Cohen. “We discussed ways to promote a determined fight against the Iranian nuclear plans with an emphasis on the expansion of economic and political sanctions.”
Iran also supplies the terrorist Hezbollah group in Lebanon and the Syrian regime against rebels in that country’s ongoing civil war. And recently it was revealed that Iran has even been providing Russia with advanced weaponry in its war against Ukraine.
But would Israel actually attack Iran?
If it did, Israel would certainly not do so on its own. In recent months the IDF has engaged in several joint military exercises with the US Military’s Central Command (CENTCOM). The exercises were said to be based around an attack on an unspecified nation and included practicing the mid-air fueling of jets.
But President Raisi may not be living in the real world these days. Either that, or he thinks hyperbole can actually scare the other side.
For example, Raisi claimed that things are “turning in favor of the resistance and against the Zionist entity,” adding in his interview, “Day after day, the Zionist entity is heading toward its demise.”
And this came from a man who still can’t bring himself to even mention Israel by name as if to do so would release some sort of powerful magic against him.
