| Maps are easy. Getting through the Iron Dome, etc. defenses is a bit harder. |
| Map at link — it looks like a map with lots of drop pins. |
Though the paper didn’t specify what the markers represented, the article opened by declaring, "An intensification of the Israeli military threats against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....seems to suggest that the Zionist regime has forgotten that Iran is more than capable of hitting them from anywhere."
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It went on to cite Hebrew media reports about a visit last week by Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Mossad chief David Barnea to Washington, where they reportedly stressed concerns over Iran’s ballistic missile threat.
The paper also noted that the Israel Defense Forces earlier this month said it will conduct a major air force exercise in the spring simulating a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The piece quoted Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of general staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, as saying Tuesday that "at the strategic level we do not intend to strike anyone, but at the operational and tactical level we are ready for a decisive response and a quick and tough offensive against the enemy."
"The Tehran Times doesn’t need to remind the illegitimate regime of Israel of Iran’s defense capabilities," the article said. "Yet they need to remember something."
The paper then recalled Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
’s remarks in 2013 that "they are threatening to strike militarily, but I think they know it, and if they do not know it, they must know that if they make a mistake the Islamic Theocratic
Republicwill destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa."
"Keep your hands off!" concluded the newspaper.
The Tehran Times piece came as talks are being held in Vienna to save a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that has been unraveling after the US pulled out of the pact.
The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action lifted sanctions from Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program that were aimed at preventing the Islamic Theocratic
Republicfrom obtaining nuclear weapons.