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….