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Interviews with Daniel Pipes
Iran
vs. Israel: Who's Making the Threats?
PressTV, The Debate
May 18, 2015
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A speech by the Israeli defense minister sets the stage for a
discussion of whether Jerusalem threatens Tehran or the other way around.
Daniel Pipes debated Brian Becker of ANSWER Coalition on a television
station run by the Islamic Republic of Iran..
An excerpt from the conversation, at 12:45:
Pipes: Do I think the U.S. government should bomb the Iranian
nuclear installations? Absolutely, and the sooner the better.
Moderator: No, should Israel do it?
Pipes: I would prefer the United States government do it but if
the United States government won't do it, I hope the Israelis will do it,
be otherwise we have madmen in Tehran controlling nuclear weapons that
threaten the Iranian population, the Israeli population, the American
population, and many other populations besides. Best to get rid of this
in advance, such as the Israelis did in Iraq in 1981 and in Syria in
2007.
Here are the contents of the two pages Mr. Pipes showed the camera:
1. Iran finances and provides arms to Hamas which periodically attacks
Israel.
2. Iran finances and provides arms to Hezbollah which periodically
attacks Israel.
3. Khomeini called for "wiping Israel out of existence" on
coming to power in. (1979)
4. Mohammad
Khatami, president of Iran: "If we abide by real legal laws, we
should mobilize the whole Islamic world for a sharp confrontation with
the Zionist regime … if we abide by the Koran, all of us should
mobilize to kill." (2000)
5. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "It is the mission of the Islamic
Republic of Iran to
erase Israel from the map of the region." (2001)
6. Hassan Nasrallah, a leader of Hezbollah: "If they [Jews] all
gather in Israel, it will save
us the trouble of going after them worldwide." (2002)
7. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran: he repeatedly called for
Israel to be "wiped off the map." (2005)
8. Nasrallah: "Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive,
illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its
destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to
Israel.'" (2005)
9. Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps:
"With God's help the time has come for the Zionist
regime's death sentence." (2008)
10. Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, Khamenei's representative to the
Moustazafan Foundation: "We have manufactured missiles that allow
us, when necessary to replace [sic] Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust."
(2010)
11. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of the Basij paramilitary
force: "We recommend them [the Zionists] to pack their furniture and
return to their countries. And if they insist on staying, they should know
that a time while arrive when they will not even have time
to pack their suitcases." (2011)
12. Khamenei: "The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that will be
removed." (2012)
13. Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of the Assembly of Experts: "The destruction of
Israel is the idea of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is one of
the pillars of the Iranian Islamic regime. We cannot claim that we have
no intention of going to war with Israel." (2013)
14. Nasrallah: "The elimination
of Israel is not only a Palestinian interest. It is the interest of
the entire Muslim world and the entire Arab world." (2013)
15. Hojateleslam Alireza Panahian, the advisor to Office of the
Supreme Leader in Universities: "The day will come when the Islamic
people in the region will destroy
Israel and save the world from this Zionist base." (2013)
16. Hojatoleslam Ali Shirazi, Khamenei's representative in the
Revolutionary Guard: "The Zionist regime will soon be
destroyed, and this generation will be witness to its
destruction." (2013)
17. Khamenei: "This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime
of Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to
be annihilated." (2014)
18. Hossein Salami, the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guard:
"We will chase you [Israelis] house to house and will take
revenge for every drop of blood of our martyrs in Palestine, and this
is the beginning point of Islamic nations awakening for your
defeat." (2014)
19. Salami: "Today we are aware of how the Zionist regime is
slowly being erased from the world, and indeed, soon, there will be no such thing as
the Zionist regime on Planet Earth." (2014)
20. Hossein Sheikholeslam, the secretary-general of the Committee for
Support for the Palestinian Intifada: "The issue of Israel's destruction
is important, no matter the method. We will obviously implement the
strategy of the Imam Khomeini and the Leader on the issue of destroying
the Zionists." (2014)
21. Khamene'i called for Israel to be "annihilated."
(November 10, 2014)
22. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary
Guard: "The Revolutionary Guards will fight to the
end of the Zionist regime ... We will not rest easy until this
epitome of vice is totally deleted from the region's geopolitics."
(2015)
23. Mujtaba du Al-Nour, a senior figure in the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards: Iran has rockets
that can reach the heart of Tel-Aviv within six or seven minutes after
being given the go ahead by the Supreme Guide, "even before the dust
of rockets of the Zionists reach us". (February 23, 2015)
24. General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of Iran's Basij militia in
late March 2015: "Wiping
Israel off the map is not up for negotiation." (April 1, 2015)
25. Mojtaba Zolnour, a Khamenei representative in the IRGC: The
"government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has divine
permission to destroy Israel. … The Noble Koran permits the Islamic
Republic of Iran to destroy Israel. … Even if Iran gives up its nuclear
program, it will not weaken this country's determination to destroy
Israel." (May 12, 2015)
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