Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Hossein Salami said that Israel was born out of terrorism, saying that “the regime will become a victim of its own assessments.”
“The Zionist regime was born in the cradle of terrorism and does not possess a single element that constitutes a nation,” said Major General Hossein Salami.
Salami alluded to the creation of Israel in 1948 after the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the war.
Salami likened Israel’s deadly actions to “a whirlwind of fire that Israel made itself and surrounded it.”
He listed some of the cases such as the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and the recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas, in Tehran.
“However, these crimes are holes that those Zionists dug for themselves and will gradually bury themselves in. When they receive a strong response, they will realize that they made a wrong assessment,” said Salami.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran is not seeking to increase tensions in the region. However, he believes that it is necessary to punish Israel in order to prevent further turmoil.
“Iran seeks to establish stability in the region, but this will only come with punishing the aggressors and creating a deterrent to the adventurism of the Zionist regime,” Kanaani said.
Kanaani called on the United States to stop supporting Israel, saying that the international community has failed in its duty to preserve stability in the region and should support “punishing the aggressors.”, Klix.ba writes.
