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Iran - again - threatens to wipe Israel off the map


By Stan Goodenough
April 15, 2008

Iran will eliminate Israel from the face of the universe if Israel attacks Tehran, Iranian deputy chief of staff, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, warned Tuesday, ratcheting up the war talk between the two countries as Tehran accelerates its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and Israel believes it is running out of time to stop the Iranians from getting the bomb.

Ashtiani's threat, which made the top slot across the Israeli news media, comes days after Israeli Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned that "Iran will be wiped off the face of the earth if it dares to fire any missile at us."

Iran, the aggressor in this standoff, has frequently vowed to obliterate the Jewish state even as it pursues the means to do so.

Ben-Eliezer, who leveled the first real Israeli threat in response to the ongoing barrage of Iranian warnings refused to retract his comment:

"I do not regret the threats I directed at Iran and its leaders. I am sick of receiving threats to Israel's existence on a daily basis," he said, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Ashtiani also threatened the US presence in Iraq - a state the Iranians are eager to extend their hegemony to.

Washington already holds Iran directly responsible for killing and injuring untold numbers of American soldiers in Iraq.

It is widely expected that either America or Israel will soon strike at the Iranians' nuclear facilities.

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