Iranian Commander Threatens Europe with Missiles

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I have long thought that when Iran unleashes its fury it will be Europe that suffers its blows. Europe is weak and would make a much easier target than a ready and realistic Israel.  European leaders thought that they had to maintain ties with the bloodthirsty Iranian Islamic regime at all costs. The Europeans were suicidally short-sighted in this, just as they were when they began pursuing policies of mass Muslim migration.

IRGC Deputy Commander Salami: ‘If The Europeans… Want To Act To Disarm Iran Of Missiles, We Will Be Forced Into A Strategic Leap’; ‘Iran’s Regional Influence Cannot Be Minimized, Because Its Essence Is A Matter Of Faith’

MEMRI, February 5, 2019:

In a February 2, 2019 interview with Iran’s Channel 2 TV, Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), explained the Iranian regime’s “defense and deterrence strategy” in light of the threats against it. He said: “The two pillars of our deterrence are our influence in the region and our missile capability.”

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Contradicting Iranian regime spokemen’s claim that Iran is forced to maintain missile capability and to expand in the region in order to defend itself against Western aggression, Salami revealed that Iran’s expansion in the region (which stretches as far as 2,000 km from its border) is directed by the regime because “its essence is a matter of faith.” That is, active geographic expansion is “a zero-sum game” played by the regime against its enemies, instead of being for purposes of defense. He explained that “the morale and the spirit of jihad against the controlling regime [i.e. the U.S.] and against the infidels are the internal faith of the region, [and therefore] no one can destroy the expansion of [Iran’s] influence.” He added: “We had two options: to remain within our geographic borders, meaning achieving the American aims, or to advance and move forward [towards countries far away from Iran].”

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Hossein Salami in Channel 2 interview. Source: Fars, Iran, February 2, 2019.

Iranian spokesmen emphasize the regime’s refusal to negotiate over its missile program, stating that Iran’s missiles are its defense against its enemies. Nevertheless, its missiles have a range of up to 2,000 km, indicating that the missile program is offensive, not defensive. Further underlining that Iran’s missile program is offensive was Salami’s warning in this interview that if Europe pressures Iran on this matter too much, the regime will take a “strategic leap” and will increase its missiles’ range: “Our defensive strategy can change subject to circumstances, and also subject to changes in the behavior of the players [in the international arena]… The structure, organization, development, quantity, and quality of our missile capability are completely open-ended. We have set no limits for the development of this capability.”

Salami said that the strategy for eradicating the “Zionist regime” has been created, hinting at Iran’s regional expansion. Addressing Israel, he warned that its response to this strategy could spark a war in which its destruction is assured, that the Israelis would be destroyed before help from the U.S. could arrive, and that there would be no burial site for them in Palestine.

To view the clip of excerpts of his statements on MEMRI TV, click here or below:

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The following are Salami’s statements in his Channel 2 interview in full, as published on February 2, 2019 by the Iranian news agency Fars:

“We Have No Technical Limitation On Expanding The Range Of Our Missiles And Increasing Their Long-Range Accuracy”

“We are an independent and great country with powerful enemies on a global scale, and the[se enemies] have serious strategies to reduce and weaken our might. The enemies want to disarm the Iranian nation of its native might using psychological, political, and economic pressure. We have a completely independent defensive strategy, the main thrust of which is creating deterrence against the same great enemies that always threaten us. We have very valuable experience in using [our] missile force, gained in the last years of the Iran-Iraq war [1980-88] and also in the battles of the Palestinian and Lebanese Muslims against the Zionist regime…

“The development of missile capability for our country as the major force for deterrence and defense is a strategy that cannot be stopped, and cannot be reined in. This force depends only on the will of the great Iranian nation and on its fundamental policy, shaped by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution [Ali Khamenei]. Happily, today we have no technological limitation on expanding [our] missile power – i.e. increasing missile accuracy to 100[%], in the matter of fuel, of warheads, and of destructive and evasive power, and attaining full independence in all aspects of missile technology – and every day [our] missile capability and quality improve. We are developing these technical capabilities according to strategic considerations, and if we restrict the range of our missiles to a particular number [i.e. to a range of 2,000 km, as IRGC officials claim Iran has], it is for strategic reasons. [But] these strategies are not set [in stone].

“Those who hear what we are saying now [i.e. in this interview] must internalize this reality: We have no technical limitation on expanding the range of our missiles, increasing their long-range accuracy, and stepping up their destructive and propulsion power. Our defensive strategy can change subject to circumstances, and also according to changes in the behavior of the players [in the international arena]. If the Europeans or others want to act according to their scheme to disarm Iran of missiles, we will be forced into a strategic leap. We can change all the factors and elements in developing this might in the technological area.”

“We Advise Everybody… Let Us Develop This [Missile] Force In Keeping With The Nature Of Our Defense Policy”

“We advise everybody: When it comes to the missile force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, let no one negotiate with us, recommend anything to us, or request anything from us. Let us develop this force in keeping with the nature of our defense policy. They should not force us to change our deterrence equation. It should be noted that as long as there is no change in our enemies’ strategy and in their strategy of hostility – which includes economic sanctions, propaganda, and pressure [so that they] remain  the regional power – our strategy too will remain the same.

“When the enemies continue to develop their missiles, spend billions of dollars to upgrade their military might, and threaten us – who could imagine that a nation or country like Iran would think of stopping development of [its] defensive and missile force?

“There is a need for constant development of [our] deterrent force, and happily today we are finding innovations in developing this aspect of might in the country, and are doing so both quantitatively and qualitatively. Our missile capability is not under fixed parameters. The structure, organization, development, quantity, and quality of our missile capability are completely open-ended. We have set no limits for the development of this capability. The threats against us have no limits, and they are particularly complex. We must have the might to defend our values, our independence, the integrity of our sovereignty, and our advancement and the glory of the nation… This missile capability is one of the pillars of [our] deterrent might.”

“The Countries With A Hostile, Controlling Policy Towards Us Must Fear Our Response”

“The countries with a hostile, controlling policy towards us must fear our response. As long as we are strong, they will have no chance to control [us]. One of the greatest lessons we have learned over the past 40 years is that independence, might, and progress cannot be achieved without might. The reason for this is that in our world, the logic of might rules [in relations] among states. Our great enemies understand only the language of force, and if we cannot speak this language to them, they will speak to us in this way. If we do not have missile might, they will force all their will on us in order to control us. Our aim in developing our missile capability is to prevent war. If the enemy miscalculates, or makes a misstep, we can correct his calculations from the first moments, with genuine responses, and as he is acting, we will show him his mistake.

“The greater missile capability we have, the greater our political might. Today, diplomacy means nothing without power.”

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Richard Piotrowski
Richard Piotrowski
5 years ago

Oh great! Spamming has moved from Facebook and has now started to infect Disqus. Kill the disease now!

guest
guest
5 years ago

Meanwhile the EU has now started the “INSTEX” transaction facility in order to sidestep the SWIFT system, and thus the US sanction regime..

https://iranian.com/2019/01/31/europe-launches-swift-iran/

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  guest

The EU is submitting and going around Trump sanctions to their demise.
Even as they enable Iran, Iran threatens them. How dumb can Merkel be?
Feed the beast that wants to gobble you up. Eye roll.

From your link –

Europe Launches SWIFT Alternative To Fund Iran In Collision Course With Trump
by Zero Hedge

In a move sure to unleash fury from the Trump administration, the European Union has announced it has set up a transactions channel with Iran to bypass US sanctions. The launch of INSTEX — or “Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges” — by France, Germany, and the UK will allow non-dollar trade with Iran and is being described as facilitating humanitarian goods-related transactions only, including food, medicine and medical equipment.

(They an’t be serious in believing it will be restricted to humanitarian related goods! MORONS!)

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas cited EU strategic and “security interests” during a press briefing in Brussels: “We have been looking for ways to obtain this agreement because we are firmly convinced that it serves our strategic security interests in Europe.” He further bluntly described, “We do not want Iran to get out of this agreement and back into uranium enrichment. This has to do with our security interests in Europe.”

(Morons – they never stopped uranium enrichment.)

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo previously warned of “swift punishment” for countries doing business with Iran, thus INSTEX is seen as a first small step toward greater European economic independence, and toward calming Iranian criticisms centered on seeing “dollar domination” as fueling European weakness to follow through on JCPOA stipulations.

But is the new financial exchange mechanism too little too late? One prominent Iranian academic and political analyst, Mohammad Ali Shabani, told Al Jazeera: “If [the mechanism] will permanently be restricted to solely humanitarian trade, it will be apparent that Europe will have failed to live up to its end of the bargain for Iran,” told Al Jazeera. And another, Foad Izadi, professor at the University of Tehran, echoed what is a common sentiment among Iran’s leaders: “I don’t think the EU is either willing or able to stand up to Trump’s threat,” and continued, “The EU is not taking the nuclear deal seriously and it’s not taking any action to prove to Iran otherwise… People are running out of patience.”

https://iranian.com/2019/01/31/europe-launches-swift-iran/

NYgal
NYgal
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Europeans are as dumb today with Iran as they were in the 1930s with Hitler’s Germany. Parallels are inescapable. Back then Europe, and the US, were not bothered by Hitler’s antisemitism and later the persecution of the Jews. Today, except for Trump, and I hope it’s not an empty rhetoric, nobody cares about Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel. In 1930s Hitler made territorial demands that ended with Europe handing over to him Czechoslovakia in Munich, 1938 and then Soviet Union making pact with him in 1939, dividing Poland. And the world war was on. And it was on German terms, not the West’s and Russians had lost tens of millions of young men, despite their pact with the devil and Europe was devastated and European Jews almost totally destroyed.
What a total moral failure on the part of the West and the Soviet Union, not even speaking of the moral
calamity that was Germany and Austria. But Austria was turned from perpetrator to victims and Germans were ‘rehabilitated’ and rebuilt, and the British who had successfully kept escaping Jews from the safety of Palestine were allowed to keep surviving Jews for 3 years after the end of the war in camps, behind the barb wires, while West uttered a few platitudes and never accounted for their own sins and crimes of handing over Jews to be killed.
Today, both Europe and Russia are playing the same self destructive games and I only hope and pray that 6 million Jews won’t die for their sins, again.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  guest

They are following their perfect man – Moham-mad. And if you dare expose truth about him they will keel you !

just like the jihadis in Indianapolis are doing http://bit.ly/2rVCN7E

BiffWellington
BiffWellington
5 years ago

I’m having trouble viewing your naked internet photos, ola. could you re-send them?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  BiffWellington

Maybe just listing the title and source could help the information be posted.
We could at least do a search on it and post it.

Strelnikov
Strelnikov
5 years ago

So, his last name is a staple in all Jewish delis? Does he know this? Seem odd to me.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

We need a global government for security & justice.
Muhammadist tyrannies must be abolished.
We must expose the lies & dominate in ethics & justice & abolish Muhammadist tyrannies & deception.
We need a global government that protects the ethical values of truth, justice, love, American English, friendliness, ecology, human rights, global focus, global imperialism, freedom from religion & to atheism, healthy food (see DrAxe.com), permanent cultivation of ecological best quality basics, support for self-realisation, the abolition of Muhammadist tyrannies & the outlawing of incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law, war & tyranny globally.

Mongoshorse
Mongoshorse
5 years ago

The sooner the better. Europe is a Shole.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Mongoshorse

Western Europe is indeed ruined by Islam anyway. Eastern Europe MAY be salvageable if they act decisively.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Europe is easily conquered. It is the U.S. that is the grand prize.
Between the US. and Israel, they want the U.S. out of the way first.
Israel would be easily taken out too.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

So satan hate Israel, AND Christians and Jews…..what say you? Oh, never mind, I see.

Malsikcuf
Malsikcuf
5 years ago

Since the EU let in the Trojan horses I suppose it’s the next step in complete takeover.

patd
patd
5 years ago

When the muslims attack Europe make sure that we don’t send any Americans in to save their asses!!!!! We can however drop in a few million more muslims from the USA!!!!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Why do communist and tyrants (same thing) make huge ostentatious military parades? Have giant plain monolithic buildings sterile in nature to hold their caucus and often the leader rants for hours and hours instead of just giving a speech?

These people, like Demoncraps, are DERANGED in nature, much like Mouslems.

az
az
5 years ago

Whatever….Iran suffers from premature missile…..launch.
Just another fail in their propaganda machine and more embarrassment.

aebe
aebe
5 years ago

Iranians just threw the ‘palistinians’ into the fire. They could be rubbed out entirely if Iran can fling nuclear bombs into Israel
Europe will see a joint Iran/Turkey threat or actual combat in Europe within two years.
Yup

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