"If the Zionists were certain that they could win a war against us, they’d have initiated one by now, but since they don’t have the strength to do so, they do nothing but threaten,” said Mojtaba Zolnour, who represents Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in the IRGC.
Should the Zionist regime nevertheless decide to strike Iran, the Islamic Republic’s missiles will fall in the heart of Tel Aviv, "even before the Zionists’ missiles will reach us”, he said.
Zolnour’s comments were reportedly a response to Zionist FM Avigdor Liberman, who said Friday that Israel was doing too much talking about Iran’s nuclear program, and that "if you want to shoot, shoot, don’t talk”.
In an implied attack on PM Benjamin Netanyahu, the Yisrael Beytenu party chief recalled that when prime minister Menachem Begin decided to blow up Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, "we woke up the next morning” to hear about it for the first time.
Similarly, in 2007, when the occupying regime of Israel allegedly destroyed an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor, "there was no talk about it” ahead of time, he said in an interview with Channel 2 news.
Netanyahu has long threatened to attack Iran in order to destroy, or at least hobble, its nuclear program, although such threats have largely tapered off.
Netanyahu is resolved to take on the Obama administration with a speech that he is scheduled to deliver to the U.S. Congress on March 3, in which he will likely warn against an deal with Iran that doesn’t do away with its uranium enrichment program.