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2025-06-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran senior military adviser: 'We must chop off Trump's hand, slit Netanyahu's throat, annihilate Israel'
[World Net Daily] 'Perhaps America has joined [the war] because we were very close to annihilating Israel. It was in the closing stages'
Saying it does not make it so, at least in the real world.
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.

How to respond to America's weekend attack on Iran's nuclear facilities?
Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-24 12:15|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [84 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Iran was "very close to annihilating Israel."

I guess that answers the lingering question.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-24 12:20||   2025-06-24 12:20|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 It's merely a flesh wound.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-06-24 13:36||   2025-06-24 13:36|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 If I were in IRGC I would suspect this guy of being an IDF agent.
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-06-24 14:02||   2025-06-24 14:02|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#4 Somebody needs to find this guy and remind him the Iranian account is far from paid in full. Often forgotten amidst the modern news accounting:

“William Richard Higgins (January 15, 1945 – July 31, 1989) was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was captured in Lebanon in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. He was held hostage, tortured[1] and eventually murdered by his captors.[2][3]” (Hezbollah)

“William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a United States Army officer in the United States Army Special Forces, and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Beirut from 1984[1] until his kidnapping and killing in 1985.

According to the United States, Buckley had undergone 15 months of torture by Hezbollah before his death. After Buckley’s kidnapping, three videos of Buckley being tortured were sent to the CIA in Athens. Interpreters noticed puncture marks indicating he was injected with narcotics. According to several sources, as a result of his torture, he signed a 400-page statement detailing his CIA activities.[5][25]
In a summary of the content of a video taken approximately seven months after the kidnapping, Buckley’s appearance was described as follows:

Buckley was close to a gibbering wretch. His words were often incoherent; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking.[26] The CIA consensus was that he would be blindfolded and chained at the ankles and wrists and kept in a cell little bigger than a coffin.[5]“

Rarely mentioned Iranian proxy victims of unspeakable treatment. Forgive me but Iran STILL has far more coming before accounts are paid in full! (WIKI cites)
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-06-24 15:27||   2025-06-24 15:27|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#5 ^ God forbid we captured his torturers and put panties on their head! THAT would be a war crime!
Posted by Frank G 2025-06-24 18:22||   2025-06-24 18:22|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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