Iran general: ‘Our hands are on the trigger’ to destroy Israel
Iran general: ‘Our hands are on the trigger’ to destroy Israel, Times of Israel, March 11, 2014
(Why would he say that sort of thing now? Related but perhaps of more importance, will the P5+1 negotiators and others who favor a deal — any deal — care? — DM)
IRGC air force chief quoted by Iranian news agency as saying his forces are ready to act as soon as they receive the order.
Iranian leaders regularly issue threats against Israel and the United States, but the wording ascribed to Salami on Tuesday was particularly aggressive.
Hossein Salami (photo credit: AP photo)
The air force commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was quoted by Iran’s Fars news agency as saying Tuesday that Iran’s military has its finger on the trigger to destroy Israel as soon as it receives the order to do so.
In an article headlined, “IRGC Commander: Iran’s Finger on Trigger to Destroy Zionist Regime,” Fars wrote that Brigadier General Hossein Salami had declared that Iranian military commanders are prepared to attack and destroy the Zionist regime of Israel as soon as they receive such an order. “Today, we can destroy every spot which is under the Zionist regime’s control with any volume of fire power (that we want) right from here,” Fars quoted Salami as telling a conference in Tehran Tuesday on “The Islamic World’s Role in the Geometry of the World Power.”
Iranian leaders regularly issue threats against Israel and the United States, but the wording ascribed to Salami on Tuesday was particularly aggressive.
“Islam has given us this wish, capacity and power to destroy the Zionist regime so that our hands will remain on the trigger from 1,400km away for the day when such an incident (confrontation with Israel) takes place,” he was also quoted saying in the speech.
The comments came a day after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a shipment of what he said were Iranian arms intercepted at sea last week, which he charged were intended for terror groups in Gaza. Netanyahu castigated the West for clinging to the illusion that Iran had changed, and said it remained relentlessly committed to fostering terrorism and advancing a nuclear weapons program.
Last month, Iranian state TV ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a hypothetical retaliation for an Israeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic.
Iranian drones and missiles were also shown in the film carrying out simulated strikes on the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, downing American aircraft and striking American military targets in the Persian Gulf.
Set to dramatic music, the video showed Iranian drones and missiles carrying out strikes against Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina square, the Azrieli Towers skyscrapers, and the IDF’s Kirya central command complex, as well as Ben Gurion International Airport, Haifa’s Technion, several army and air force bases, and the nuclear reactor in Dimona.
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WarSclerotic 
March 11, 2014 at 8:23 PM
Wishful thinking by salami.Which by the way-i would not feed this bad tasting and lookin salami to the homeless neighborhood dog.
March 11, 2014 at 8:30 PM
I think Salami is full of baloney. 🙂
March 11, 2014 at 10:19 PM
If ones brain is full of sh… – what comes out is sh…….!! These guys are totally nuts, just unbelievable ! But nevertheless they are dangerous ! The hypocritical, coward and antisemitic west will do NOTHING to stop the Nazi Regime in Teheran, dont wait for something that will never happen ! Lets take them out NOW and do Israel and the whole world a favour !
March 11, 2014 at 10:34 PM
So far, the USA has suffered 57,714 dead and wounded in the war on terror in the Mideast. Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
Nothing cowardly about that. Especially when you consider our brave and young soldiers destroyed over 3 times that amount in enemy combatants. As far as I know, no Jewish folks were killed by direct action of our military. Nothing anti-Semitic about that either.
March 12, 2014 at 12:04 AM
100% spot on steve and who is wingate to say that,why doesnt wingate come and fight them for us as talk is cheap and useless
March 12, 2014 at 5:50 AM
Deterrence doesnt work with the nazi regime in teheran – these are muslim fanatics believing in a scenario where they have to confront the non muslim world by all means – ignoring their own losses. Therefore the longer the west waits to stop the nazi government in teheran, the higher the costs. Its like with cancer – there is a point where its too late to fight it….The US Nation has paid a high price to keep the world free – this is appreciated by all
reasonable people. Unfortunately there has taken place a coup d’etat in the USA and a government is now in power which leads the USA the path of selfdestruction, causing havoc in the whole western/free world. I dont see / expect the present US administration to confront Iran / this administration rather prefers to support radical Islam rather than fight it / e.g. MB in egypt. I think the job to remove the global threat from teheran has to be done by Israel – there is no one else brave / determined / realistic enough to do it. I would hope that the us administration would at least support Israel after Israel did the job – but the way I know this administration it only will stab Israel in the back ( again )……But this is more a of problem for the USA, because Israels strength is her God who has said ” I will curse those who curse Israel !”. I really hope that this present US administration will soon be removed by the true americans…….
March 12, 2014 at 3:17 PM
I agree WG. And I pray we all find the good grace of our creator in support of Israel. In a little over 1000 days, the Obama regime must leave office. Later this year, a lot of his democratic operatives in Congress stand to be voted out of office as well. Such a power shift in Congress would cripple Obama in his efforts to ‘destroy’ the USA in the last days of his immaculation. Until all this comes to pass, I’ll reserve my judgment on whether this was a ‘coup d’etat’ or not.
What really grinds my gears is the fact that our Christian brothers in muslim dominated countries are under attack. Churches are burned, congregations are murdered, and church property is smashed. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the support? How long must we turn the other cheek?
March 12, 2014 at 4:54 PM
Coup my ass Obama like it or not was democratically elected leader,this is deliberate disinformation of the russian kind divide your enemy’s there is only one string puller in all this Putin putin pulls irans strings syrias strings and there proxies as it has since 1967,dont even waist your time taking to wingate ,i doubt he even knows who wingate was if i had to bet wingate is the voice of the FSB end of LMFAO
March 11, 2014 at 11:29 PM
…and now this….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577930/Iran-blew-Lockerbie-jet-Ayatollah-used-Syrian-based-terror-group-bomb-Pan-Am-108-revenge-attack-airliner.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
March 12, 2014 at 12:02 AM
You dont know it yet your leaders dont trust you <i wonder why,Your about to have a war with them with russia pulling the strings half the us fleets about to arrive on top of the airlift of 50,000 troops you dont know about ooops
March 12, 2014 at 3:10 AM
Here’s an interesting article…and the world’s longest URL:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-crossroads-us-builds-up-military-forces-obama-threatens-to-end-diplomacy-over-ukraine/5372803?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dangerous-crossroads-us-builds-up-military-forces-obama-threatens-to-end-diplomacy-over-ukraine
March 12, 2014 at 12:03 PM
http://tinyurl.com/ make the long url into
http://tinyurl.com/nhg8l8v
March 12, 2014 at 3:11 AM
One more observation, this is not only a dangerous situation, but it also seems to put the Iranian crisis in the background.
March 12, 2014 at 11:16 PM
Were going to cut the head off the snake,see where that leaves iran at Israels mercy and i hope israel has no mercy,i was not going to comment on iran until the nuclear negotiations were over but this weeks events prove that the whole thing is a sham