Iran Says Could ’Raze Tel Aviv, Haifa’ In Response to ‘Israeli’ Claims Updating Attack Plans

By Staff, Agencies

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Tehran will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa if ‘Israel’ commits any mistake after Zionist war minister said the regime was updating plans for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear sites.

“Sometimes, the Zionist regime bites off more than it can chew and makes threats that are clearly out of desperation,” Brigadier General Hatami said on Sunday.

"Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the Chief Commander of the Armed Forces [His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei], in the years which they were making such threats, said once that 'the Zionist regime is not our main enemy and they know and if they don't, they should know that the Islamic Republic will level Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground if they do something wrong.'

"These statements of the Eminent Leader have become an action plan which will be executed with a single gesture," Hatami underscored.

The remarks came after Zionist minister Benny Gantz said the occupation regime was updating plans for military strikes on Iran's nuclear sites in case Tehran continues what he characterized as “nuclear escalation.”

In an interview with Fox News, Gantz was asked about Iran’s nuclear program and whether ‘Israel’ was completing preparations to attack Iranian targets.

"We have them [plans] in our hands of course but we will continue constantly improving them,” he said.

“The Iranian nuclear escalation must be stalled. If the world stops them before, it's very much good. But if not, we must stand independently and we must defend ourselves by ourselves.”

Iran has repeatedly enunciated its nuclear program as exclusively civilian, subject to the most intensive UN supervisions ever.

Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] in 2015 with six world countries, which led to the forging of close cooperation between the Islamic Republic and the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], despite intensive ‘Israeli’ lobbying to torpedo the nuclear agreement.

However, the administration of former US president Donald Trump severely undermined the JCPOA by abandoning it in May 2018 amid numerous IAEA reports on Tehran’s full compliance with the accord.

The Tel Aviv regime supported Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the deal and the “maximum pressure” campaign that the US launched against Iran.

"I advise and emphasize to them that they should not make such mistakes, even verbally," Hatami said Sunday.

The Zionist officials’ renewed anti-Iran rhetoric comes despite the fact that the occupying regime is believed to be the sole possessor of atomic bombs in the Middle East and estimated to have between 200 and 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. Tel Aviv has turned a deaf ear to international calls for the regime to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [NPT].