Excerpted from today\’s article in the Times of Israel:
A senior Iranian official on Tuesday said Israel “should be annihilated,” and that the thawing relations with the West would not translate into a shift in Tehran\’s position concerning the Jewish state.
Hussein Sheikholeslam, a foreign affairs adviser to parliament speaker Ali Larijani, told Iranian media that contrary to remarks by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, “Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate slogan.”
Sheikholeslam told a Hamas news outlet earlier this month that Iran has resisted pressure exerted by the P5+1 world powers during the nuclear negotiations to halt its political involvement in Gaza, Syria and Yemen.
“These powers admitted that the reason for their pressure on us is our position on Israel,” he said. “We told them that we reject the existence of any Israeli on this earth.”
This is the mindset that Barack Obama and John Kerry have caved in to.
Anyone still wondering why there are supporters of Israel – Jew and non-Jew alike – are against this deal?
I would hope not.
Anyone still wondering why there are supporters of Israel who support this deal?
I would hope so.
And anyone wondering what will happen to the United States if something happens between Iran and Israel…which, it would seem self-evident, it inevitably is going to, since Israel cannot stand by and watch Iran, dedicated to its annihilation, become nuclear?
I would hope so, and I would hope we\’re damn worried about it.
