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2023-04-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iran’s supreme leader: Israel’s demise coming faster than I expected
[IsraelTimes] Khamenei, referencing 2015 remarks giving Jewish state another 25 years, says internal crisis over judicial overhaul is tearing country apart sooner than he thought

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
told local leaders on Tuesday that the "Zionist regime" was disappearing faster than he had anticipated, amid internal Israeli divisions over the government’s controversial judicial overhaul.

"Their own officials continuously warn that their collapse is nearing. Their president says this, their former prime minister says this, their [military] chief says this and their defense minister says this. They all say it," Khamenei said, appearing to refer to concerns voiced by public figures, such as President Isaac Herzog, that civil conflict could break out over intense disagreements on the legislation that seeks to shackle the Supreme Court.

"They say their collapse is nearing and that they won’t make it to their 80th birthday. We said a few years ago [in 2015] that they wouldn’t reach the next 20 or 25-year point from then. But they themselves are in a rush and want to leave sooner," he said.

The comments on Israel were made during a special Ramadan address Khamenei gave to government officials in Tehran.

On Twitter, Khamenei also wrote: "The Zionist regime had never faced such a terrible crisis like the current one during its 75 years. It is gripped by severe political instability. In 4 years, it has changed 4 prime ministers, & political coalitions have fallen apart before they have been completely formed."

Israel was deadlocked politically since elections in 2019. After its fifth election in under four years in November 2022, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power, with his Likud party and religious and far-right allies winning 64 seats.

Since forming a government, the Netanyahu coalition has pushed a contentious proposal to weaken the country’s judiciary, drawing severe warnings from the security establishment that the plans have worsened the nation’s strategic position, highlighting the danger of enemies identifying the internal divisions as weakness.

Tensions peaked last week after Netanyahu announced he was firing Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for publicly calling for a halt to the legislation due to such concerns.

The announcement sparked spontaneous mass protests, which swelled to a strike announcement by the Histadrut labor federation, including the grounding of outgoing flights from Ben Gurion Airport. Netanyahu then announced a temporary pause to the legislative push, saying he was going to give compromise negotiations a chance. Gallant remains in his post.

In a message to Israel’s adversaries during a Tuesday pre-Passover toast at the Defense Ministry, Netanyahu said that "no [internal] dispute will prevent us from protecting ourselves from attacks."

In recent weeks, Israel has appeared to step up its attacks on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Tehran-backed groups in Syria.

A fourth Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Syria attributed to Israel within the span of a week was carried out early Tuesday morning, reportedly killing two Syrian civilians.

In a strike last Friday, two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 He seems to be quoting Holofernes.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-06 12:51||   2023-04-06 12:51|| Front Page Top

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