The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.
The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide.
Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
The article, written by Alireza Forghani, a conservative analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned conservative sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.
Because Israel is going to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran is justified in launching a pre-emptive, cataclysmic attack against the Jewish state, the doctrine argues.
On Friday, in a major speech at prayers, Khamenei announced that Iran will support any nation or group that attacks the “cancerous tumor” of Israel. Though his statement was seen by some in the West as fluff, there is substance behind it.
Iran’s Defense Ministry announced this weekend that it test-fired an advanced two-stage, solid-fuel ballistic missile and boasted about successfully putting a new satellite into orbit, reminding the West that its engineers have mastered the technology for intercontinental ballistic missiles even as the Islamic state pushes its nuclear weapons program.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen. Seyyed Mehdi Farahi, stated in August that the Safir missile, which is capable of transporting a satellite into space, can easily be launched parallel to the earth’s orbit, which will transform it into an intercontinental ballistic missile. Western analysts didn’t believe this would happen until 2015. Historically, orbiting a satellite is the criterion for crediting a nation with ICBM capability.
Forghani details the Islamic duty of jihad as laid out in the Quran for the sake of Allah and states that “primary jihad,” according to some Shiite jurists, can only occur when the Hidden Imam, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, returns. Shiites believe Mahdi’’s return will usher in Armageddon.
In the absence of the hidden Imam, Forghani says, “defensive jihad” could certainly take place when Islam is threatened, and Muslims must defend Islam and kill their enemies. To justify such action, Alef quotes the Shiites’ first imam, Ali, who stated “Waging war against the enemies with whom war is inevitable and there is a strong possibility that in near future they will attack Muslims is a must and the duty of Muslims.”
The article then quotes the Quran (Albaghara 2:191-193): “And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers] … and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.”
It is the duty for all Muslims to participate in this defensive jihad, Forghani says. A fatwa by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made it clear that any political domination by infidels over Muslims authorizes Muslims to defend Islam by all means. Iran now has the ICBM means to deliver destruction on Israel and soon will have nuclear warheads for those missiles.
In order to attack Iran, the article says, Israel needs the approval and assistance of America, and under the current passive climate in the United States, the opportunity must not be lost to wipe out Israel before it attacks Iran.
Under this pre-emptive defensive doctrine, several Ground Zero points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated. Forghani cites the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority of 5.7 million are Jewish. Then it breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population that Iran could target with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all its inhabitants.
Forghani suggests that Iran’s Sejil missile, which is a two-stage rocket with a trajectory and speed that make it impossible to intercept, should target such Israeli facilities as: the Rafael nuclear plant, which is the main nuclear engineering center of Israel; the Eilun nuclear plant; another Israeli reactor in Nebrin; and the Dimona reactor in the nuclear research center in Neqeb, the most critical nuclear reactor in Israel because it produces 90 percent enriched uranium for Israel’s nuclear weapons.
Other targets, according to the article, include airports and air force bases such as the Sedot Mikha Air Base, which contains Jericho ballistic missiles and is located southwest of the Tel Nof Air Base, where aircraft equipped with nuclear weapons are based. Secondary targets include power plants, sewage treatment facilities, energy resources, and transportation and communication infrastructures.
Finally, Forghani says, Shahab 3 and Ghadr missiles can target urban settlements until the Israelis are wiped out.
Forghani claims that Israel could be destroyed in less than nine minutes and that Khamenei, as utmost authority, the Velayete Faghih (Islamic Jurist), also believes that Israel and America not only must be defeated but annihilated.
The radicals ruling Iran today not only posses over 1,000 ballistic missiles but are on the verge of ICBM delivery and have sufficient enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs even as they continue to highly enrich uranium despite four sets of U.N. sanctions.
The Iranian secret documentary “The Coming Is Upon Us” clearly indicates that these radicals believe the destruction of Israel will trigger the coming of the last Islamic Messiah and that even Jesus Christ, who will convert to Islam, will act as Mahdi’s deputy, praying to Allah as he stands behind the 12th Imam.
When they are not defending their land, the Holy Land G-d provided for them, the members of the IDF are interacting with the families they protect.
I got to believe that the Ayatollah’s and the WackJahb’s locations are known by Mossad, CIA, google earth, etc. Shoot down their plane/s on their way to the UN or while thy enjoy their Friday morninh rants.
The Jews will not be removed from their land again! Those who come to annihilate Israel–will themselves be annihilated!
You are correcct. Unfortunely most American Jews refuse to see the truth.
Since Iran threatens to wipe out the Jewish people, Jews must overcome their squeamishness.
America dropped the atom bomb on Japan and Japan didn’t vow to wipe out America.
Iran threatens to kill every Jew in the world. No measure is too extreme to thwart possible genocide.
As the Talmud says, “when he comes to kill you, kill him first.”
No, he was determined to save Iran. If he’s re-elected, he may openly declare which side he’s on.
Begining in 11/11 Israel started destroying (unnatural events) industrial and military installations in Iran (Isfahan among others) without using nuclear weapons until Husein Obama forced Israel to stop. He wanted to take credit in time for the presidential elections.
No excuse for 1/2 measures.
I don’t think that would do the trick, Arnold. Have you noticed, that the Turks are now worikng on developing missiles with a 2500 km range? If IRAN (not just one of their elected kook leaders) is not dealt with on the same scale that Germany was dealt with in WWII, Israel will soon be surrounded by countries willing to follow in Achmadinejad’s footsteps. It’s THE PEOPLE around Israel than need to learn to fear her; otherwise, she will be repeating the same thing over and over again with Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Iraq, you name it.
I will mark this day on my calendar 🙂
Wouldn’t it be easier to send in a commando team, catch this odious would-be ayatolla of mass-murder, tape his mouth shut, tie his arms, load him aboard a helicopter, tie a rope around his neck, toss him out the door, then, over the Gulf of Aden, chop the rope and drop him to provide a meal for a school of sharks? And all of it videotaped so it never can be denied.
And, as an afterthought, send in another team to give the same payoff to Forghani.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Bland and Laura- Nuking Iran would be doing the Globe a great service. The millions of Iran’s neighbours that would perish as a result of radioactive fall-out would do wonders to ease overpopulation, world hunger and on and on. What this world need is a good culling.
I agree with every word you said, Oatmeal.
This ought to make every Jew smile. There are 1,600 million Muslims in the world, and fewer than 12 million Jews. For those 1600M to be cowering in fear of the 12M is downright hilarious 🙂
Steven,
Please avoid words such as “nobody” and “never”. My granddaughter would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons, if that’s what it took to save her mommy. To think the Jews of Israel would cringe at nuking Iran, if not doing so meant their loved ones would die, is to think of the Jews as less moral than animals. The Iranians are not talking about protecting Iran; they are talking about exterminating the Jewish people, all over the world. There is nothing even human about their sentiments; they are a danger to humanity. I personally would relish the opportunity to turn Iran into a mushroom farm.
Israel will and should attack with conventional weapons. Nobody in Israel will accept a nuclear attack.
Iran must be destroyed first, with nuclear weapons. Their cities must be annihilated and laid waste and it must be never allowed to recover.
Whoever threatens the Jewish people with extinction, will become extinct first.