Iran senior military adviser: ‘We must chop off Trump’s hand, slit Netanyahu’s throat, annihilate Israel’
Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, senior advisor to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – the branch of Iran’s armed forces created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 to protect the radical theocratic regime – said on Iranian TV Monday, June 23, that Iran was “very close to annihilating Israel.”
As reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, the IRGC commander-in-chief and former commander of current Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei’s security unit, said the U.S. may have joined the conflict because Iran was on the verge of destroying the Jewish state.
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Iranians must “chop off President Trump’s hand,” insisted Jabbari, and “slit Netanyahu’s throat,” boasting that American military bases and warships in the region could be eliminated “in the blink of an eye.” But most important of all, he insisted, Israel itself must be annihilated.
Iranian General Ebrahim Jabbari, Advisor to IRGC Chief, on Iran State TV: We Must Chop Off Trump’s Hand, Slit Netanyahu’s Throat, Annihilate Israel pic.twitter.com/c9INFEDfnN
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In the TV interview, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core’s top leader had some startling – and some obviously false – things to say. As MEMRI reported:
The program’s host claimed that Iranian intelligence had intercepted internal Israeli communications indicating that, despite official reports stating there were no fatalities, over 500 Israelis were actually killed and 300 are missing following the previous day’s Iranian attacks, in which several dozen were reportedly wounded. Jabbari confirmed the host’s claim.
Later, Jabbari alleged that Israel had failed to intercept even a single Iranian missile. The host concluded by asserting that the world acknowledges Iran is in the right and that Iran must build a nuclear bomb.
Reporter: “Yesterday, our people conducted SIGINT operations, and they heard the [the Israelis] say that there were over 500 casualties, in our attacks yesterday. In addition, almost 300 people are missing, and they are stuck under the rubble, and about 200 people were injured. More than 200. So in our operations yesterday alone, more than 1,000 people were killed or injured, or are still missing.”
Responded Jabbari: “That is correct. … Perhaps, America has joined [the war], because we were very close to annihilating Israel. It was in the closing stages.” He added: “We must not lift our foot from Netanyahu’s throat, and the throats of the Zionist criminals. In addition to chopping off Trump’s hand, by means of the divine wisdom of our beloved Leader, who is more precious to us than our own lives, we must slit Netanyahu’s throat, and send him to Hell for all eternity.”
Reporter: “All of them, the young and the old, are occupiers. The Zionist idea, in general, is a Satanic ideology that needs to depart this world. Everybody who lives there, the young and the old – they are all occupiers, plunderers, and enemies. Now they are fleeing in boats. Yes, just like you came in boats, you need to flee in boats, back to where you came from.”
Jabbari: “America’s biggest asset in the region is not its warships and bases. These will be annihilated in the blink of an eye. America’s main asset and main investment in its war against us is Israel itself, and we must annihilate it.
“They fail to intercept even a single missile of ours.”
Reporter: “Today, not only does the world admit that Iran is right, they all admit that Iran needs to build a nuclear bomb. Polls in our country have shown that 90% of the people say we should do this.”