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Israel will be destroyed in half an hour if America attacks Iran: senior Iranian MP
ReutersJuly 1, 2019
GENEVA (Reuters) - Israel will be destroyed in half an hour if the United States attacks Iran, a senior Iranian parliamentarian said on Monday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Weeks of tensions culminated last month in U.S. President Donald Trump's last-minute decision to call off planned strikes on Iran after Tehran downed a U.S. drone. Washington also accused Iran of being behind attacks on ships in the Gulf, which Tehran denies.
"If the U.S. attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel's lifespan," Mojtaba Zolnour, the chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy commission said on Monday, according to Mehr.
(Reporting By Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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Iranian official warns only half an hour will remain of Israel’s lifespan’ if US attacks Iran:
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Mojtaba Zolnour, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, has warned in an interview with the Tehran-based Arabic language news TV network al-Alam that if the US attacks Iran, “only half an hour will remain of Israel’s lifespan”.
The statement was made against the backdrop of ever-increasing regional tensions due to worsening ties between the US and Iran; an Israeli intelligence source, in turn, reportedly claimed that Iran may attempt to provoke Israel along one of its borders to try to escalate the ongoing hostilities with the US.
The US-Iranian tensions escalated last month following an apparent sabotage attack against two oil tankers off Iran’s coast in the Gulf of Oman. Washington immediately blamed Tehran for the attacks, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry accused the Trump administration and its Israeli and Gulf State allies of deliberately escalating the situation to “cover up” the US’ “economic terrorism against Iran”.
Relations between Iran and Israel also remain strained, with the Jewish state repeatedly accusing the Islamic Republic of supporting “terrorist” groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and of waging proxy wars in countries such as Syria which could pose a threat to Israel’s security. Iran denied the charges, accusing Israel and its allies of engaging in military aggression throughout the region.
Zolnour Rejects Trump’s Claim He Stopped US Attack on Iran
Separately in the interview, Zolnour refuted the US President’s recent claim that he had allegedly prevented a military strike on Iran with just 10 minutes to go as a “political bluff”.
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“If they [the Americans] had predicted their attack would be successful, they would not have canceled it and it would definitely have happened,” Zolnour said.
His comments come after US President Donald Trump issued a multipart statement on 21 June confirming that he had “stopped” a military strike against three sites in Iran 10 minutes before it was launched after finding out that about 150 people would die in the attack.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in turn, also cast doubt on Trump’s remarks last week.
“You were really worried about 150 people? How many people have you killed with a nuclear weapon? How many generations have you wiped out with these weapons?” Zarif was cited as saying by the Iranian news agency IRIB, in an apparent nod to the devastating atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which ended World War II.
Repercussions of the IRGC Downing of US Drone
Trump’s tweets followed earlier media reports that the US President had reportedly approved an attack on Iran in response to Thursday’s drone shoot-down, but backtracked at the last minute.
Trump’s remarks were preceded by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying on 20 June that they had brought down a US Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone flying over Hormozgan Province on the nation’s southern coast because it violated the country’s airspace.
The US Central Command, for its part, said that the unmanned aerial vehicle was hit while operating over international waters in the Strait of Hormuz. The developments worsened the already tense ties between Tehran and Washington, which have been deteriorating since Trump announced the US’ withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on 8 May 2018. Additionally, Trump said that he was reinstating harsh economic sanctions against Iran.
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Exactly a year after, Tehran announced that it suspends some of its obligations under the JCPOA, in what was followed by more US’ anti-Iranian sanctions and the delivery of a US aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, in what US National Security Adviser Mike Bolton described as a “message” to Iran.
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Iran official: If US attacks, Israel will be destroyed in half an hour
As Tehran breaks the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium under nuclear deal, top parliamentarian threatens to annihilate Jewish state
By TOI staff and Agencies 1 July 2019, 6:02 pm 31
Mojtaba Zolnour, chairman of Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission (YouTube screenshot)
A senior Iranian lawmaker on Monday threatened that Israel would be destroyed in “half an hour” if the United States attacks the Islamic Republic.
“If the US attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel’s lifespan,” said Mojtaba Zolnour, chairman of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, in comments carried by the Mehr news agency.
Iran acknowledged Monday it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year after the US unilaterally withdrew from the accord.
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The announcement came as tensions remain high between Iran and the US. In recent weeks, the wider Persian Gulf has seen Iran shoot down a US military surveillance drone, mysterious attacks on oil tankers and Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen launching bomb-laden drones into Saudi Arabia.
The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as making the uranium announcement. IRNA reported that Zarif, answering a reporter’s question whether Iran had broken the limit, said: “Yes.”
“If Europeans do what they have to do, our measures are reversible,” Zarif said, according to IRNA.
Zarif did not say how much low-enriched uranium Iran had on hand, IRNA said.
Also Monday, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency said Iran was behind a string of recent attacks on targets across the Persian Gulf.
Speaking at an annual security conference in Israel on Monday, Yossi Cohen said, “I can tell you, with certainty, from the best sources of Israeli and Western intelligence, that Iran is behind the attacks.”
Mossad head Yossi Cohen at a cyber conference at Tel Aviv University, June 24, 2019. (Flash90)
Cohen mentioned recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf, oil fields in Saudi Arabia and in Baghdad. He said the attacks “were approved by the Iranian leadership, and were carried out, at least mostly, by the Revolutionary Guard and their surrogates.”
Israel has long seen Iran as its greatest threat. Iranian officials regularly threaten to destroy the Jewish state.
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