An Israeli war on Iran “will eventually happen” but the Jewish state will be destroyed as a result, the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, according to reports.
“War will happen but it is not certain where and when,” General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to the ISNA and Fars news agencies.
“The shameful and cancerous tumour that is Israel is seeking war against us, but it is not known when that war will happen. They now consider war as the only way to confront us, but they are so stupid that their (US) masters should stop them,” he said, speaking during an armed forces exhibition in Tehran.
“If they begin (aggression), it will spell their destruction and will be the end of the story,” he said.
“This (war) will eventually happen as the (Islamic) revolution is moving rapidly towards its goals, and they cannot tolerate this. And finally, they will impose a war situation.”
The comments were the first time Iran has acknowledged the probability of open armed conflict with
Israel. Previously, it has dismissed such a scenario as bluff on the part of Israel’s leaders.
Tensions, though, have risen significantly in recent weeks, with Israel threatening to unleash air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel believes Iran’s nuclear programme to be aimed at developing an atomic weapons capability that would menace its own existence, and
its current status as the Middle East’s sole, if undeclared, nuclear
weapons power.
Iran insists its programme is exclusively for peaceful, civilian ends, but it is locked in a deepening standoff with the UN nuclear watchdog and the UN Security Council over the issue.
Jafari said that, “even if they (the Israelis) act rationally, this incident will happen.”
He added: “Everyone knows that they cannot confront the power
of the Islamic republic … But there is no guarantee of rationality, and
it is possible that they will go crazy” and attack.
He said a war with Israel would contrast with Iran’s last war, the 1980-1988 conflict with Iraq that was characterised by invasion and counter-invasion by massed ground troops. “We should use the experience of the sacred defence (during the Iran-Iraq war) to prepare for the future war, because its nature
will be very different from the previous war,” he said.
Fars quoted Jafari as saying that “we are putting all of our efforts into boosting our (military) capability so that, if an aggression occurs, we can defend ourselves and those who need our help.”
He added: “We have become more serious in the face of the threats of the enemy against our country.”
If war starts, pakistan will also attack israel. Israel will be eliminated from the face of the earth.
The claims of Iran developing nuclear weapons are the same as Saddam having weapons of mass destruction. This war if it is ever waged is only to pilfer oil as was done in Iraq & is being done in Libya.
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