Former IRGC leader warns Iran will 'level Tel Aviv to the ground'
A former leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday said Iran would not hesitate to destroy Israel if the latter attacked the Islamic Republic.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A former leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday said Iran would not hesitate to destroy Israel if the latter attacked the Islamic Republic.
Mohsen Rezaei, a former head of Iran’s IRGC and secretary of the country’s Expediency Council, made the comments during a televised speech where he threatened the city of Tel Aviv would be “leveled to the ground” if Israel were to attack Iran.
He also said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not be given “any opportunity to flee,” after the Israeli leader said his country would strike Iran during a speech at the annual Munich Security Conference.
“About Netanyahu’s unwise words, I should say that if they carry out the slightest unwise move against Iran, we will level Tel Aviv to the ground,” Rezaei told the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar channel.
On Sunday, Netanyahu said his country “could act against Iran” amid recent tensions between the two sides after an altercation in Syria last week.
During his speech in Munich, the Prime Minister displayed what he said was a piece from an Iranian drone that flew into Israeli airspace on Feb. 10.
“Israel will not allow the regime to put a noose of terror around our neck,” he said. “We will act if necessary not just against Iran’s proxies but Iran itself.”
Netanyahu noted that in the midst of the Islamic State’s military defeat in Iraq and Syria, Tehran was expanding its influence in the region, and “trying to create a land bridge from Iran to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza.”
Israel accuses Iran of plotting a permanent military presence in Syria, where Iranian-backed forces currently support the Syrian government in the ongoing civil war in the country.
Israel also charges Iran with aiding terrorist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“The US and Israeli leaders don’t know Iran and don’t understand the power of resistance and, therefore, they continuously face defeat,” Rezaei concluded.