An Iranian military adviser has said that Iran could wipe out Israel
“in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the
abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist
regime in less than eight minutes,” Ahmad Karimpour, a senior adviser to
the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) elite Quds Force said
Thursday, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
The comments come after the test-fire
of a ballistic missile two weeks ago that had the potential to reach
Israeli territory. “We test-fired a missile with a range of 2,000
kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters,” Brigadier General Ali
Abdollahi told a
Tehran science conference, the Times of Israel reported.
In March, Tehran fired two ballistic missiles,
the Qadr-H model, that carried the message “Israel must be wiped out”
in Hebrew into the Sea of Oman, as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited
Israel on the same day.
Khamenei has frequently stated that Israel
should be destroyed. He warned in September 2015 that Israel will not
exist as a country in 25 years. “I’m saying [to Israel] that they won’t
live to see the end of these 25 years,” he said. “With Allah’s help,
there will be no such thing as a Zionist regime in 25 years.”
In November 2014, Khamenei said that Israel “has no cure but to be
annihilated,” using frictions at the Jerusalem holy site sacred to both
Jews and Muslims as a reason for the destruction of the Israeli state.
Iranian nuclear deals since July 2015 with six world powers caused a
mixed reaction in Israel, with the government believing that Iran will
still retain the capability for its missiles to reach its territory and
threaten its security.
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