Iran threatens to wipe Israel off map

Iran’s top general has said it is time to obliterate Israel, and that it’s now possible due to new military might, as international tensions escalate. 

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in an announcement on Monday said that destroying arch rival Israel has become an “achievable goal” thanks to his country’s technological advances.

This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer … a dream (but) it is an achievable goal, Major General Hossein Salami said, quoted by the Guards’ Sepah news site.

Four decades on from Iran’s Islamic revolution, we have managed to obtain the capacity to destroy the impostor Zionist regime, he said.

Salami’s comments, while not unusual for Iranian officials, come amid particularly heightened international tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and a series of incidents that have raised fears of a confrontation between Tehran and its other main regional rival, Riyadh.

The United States, which withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in 2018, has imposed a campaign of “maximum pressure” — with vocal support from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The country has been consistently hostile towards Israel since its revolution, and Tehran openly supports anti-Israeli armed groups including Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.