|
2025-03-17 Government Corruption
|
|
Iranian ex-officers to Israeli TV: Israel should bomb Khamenei’s home, help topple regime
|
[IsraelTimes] In report showing them with blurred faces, men identified as ex-air force colonel and disillusioned IRGC officer say ‘the power of the Israeli army must help the Iranian nation’
A man said to be a retired colonel in the Iranian air force urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to facilitate a coup by striking the home of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 broadcast on Saturday.
Goodness. Yet another Moslem in the region wanting Israel to play Janissaries and do the work for them. The Saudis and other oil sheikhs also want Israel to defeat Iran so they needn’t risk themselves. “Netanyahu needs to order an attack on Khamenei’s home,” the man said.
“And we, the military can take over sensitive political centers and officially announce Iran’s freedom and friendship with Israel,” he added.
How will you reward Israel for taking on the risk and the expense? The man — whose face was blurred and who used the pseudonym Arash — also claimed 95 percent of Iranians were pleased with the IDF’s retaliatory strikes on military sites in the Islamic Republic, which he said has “taken us, the people, hostage.”
True. The man said Iranians “have this kind of wish that Israel will go further” than it had in the April and October retaliatory strikes “so that the nation will be emboldened and take to the streets.”
“They themselves will cut [the regime’s] roots from the country,” he added, noting the weakening of Iran’s air defenses and its regional proxies.
Also speaking to Channel 12, a man said to have been a cleric in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — which is separate from the military and answers directly to Khamenei — urged Israel to attack Iran.
“I don’t see Israel as criminal. We say ‘death to Israel,’ but Israel doesn’t say ‘death to Iran,'” said the man, whose face was also blurred and who used the pseudonym Javad.
“We’ve been friends days since the days of Cyrus [the Great],”
…king of the Medes and the Persians, conquerer of Babylonia, among others, all back in the 6th century BC. That debt has long since been repaid, not that Cyrus the Great demanded more than that his Jews be law-abiding citizens who shared their prosperity with his empire, which they did with great enthusiasm. The Jews have ever since described him as the Platonic ideal of a gentile ruler… he said. “Cyrus saved the Jews of Babylon. Now we expect something in return — that you lend us a hand of friendship, that the power of the Israeli army come to help the Iranian nation.”
Arash and Javad were both said to be speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 from inside Iran — an exceptional feat, given the country’s tight censorship and its leaders’ open commitment to destroy Israel.
As part of that cause, Iran supports an “Axis of Resistance” network of regional proxies, which includes Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Gaza’s Hamas and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Arash said he had been forced to resign from the military after he refused to help train Hamas in guerrilla tactics and urban warfare. It was unclear when the episode had taken place.
Possibly within the last several years, possibly even before that… He noted Israel’s recent successes against Iran’s proxies in the wars in Gaza and Lebanon that followed October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
An estimated 20,000 - 30,000 dead Hamasniks plus associated Gazan civilians, perhaps about half as many Hezbollahniks ditto — and that when hobbled by an American administration that was strongly anti-Israel and slow-walking weapons sales. Think what they’ll be able to accomplish when the American government is supportive… Hezbollah, unprovoked, began attacking Israel a day later. In September the following year, Israel stepped up operations against Hezbollah, detonating booby-trapped pagers it had covertly sold to the terror group and assassinating its long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“Israel has hurt the leaders of the resistance movements. In the pager attack and others, Nasrallah himself said they took a heavy blow,” said Arash. “What the IRGC thinks now is that Hamas won’t recuperate. Hezbollah won’t recuperate. Where do they place their stock? In Yemen.”
Yemen is currently taking American fire. They may not much longer be a viable option. Asked about Israel’s attack on Iran’s air defenses in late October — which followed Iran’s October 1 missile attack that sent millions of Israelis into bomb shelters — Arash said that the Islamic Republic’s airspace was “wide open.”
“The computer system that receives orders and launches missiles at planes — those systems have been taken completely offline,” he said.
Arash said Israel’s attack mainly hit “sites with S-300 anti-ballistic missile silos that Russia gave Iran, as well as drones.”
“Now they have no advanced anti-plane systems,” he said. “They have the same old systems we used in the [1980-1988] Iran-Iraq War, two pipes that we sit behind and shoot out of.”
An evocative description — the man has the soul of a poet, appropriate for a culture even whose astronomers wrote in quatrains. A former Israeli intelligence officer interviewed by Channel 12 explained that the Iran-Iraq War had been the reason Tehran did not disband its military, which was loyal to the deposed shah, immediately after the 1979 revolution that heralded the Islamic Republic.
Then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini had planned to replace the military with the IRGC, but the war’s manpower crunch required him to keep the military intact, the Israeli officer said.
The Iranian birthrate has been below replacement for a while — the current total fertility rate being 1.91 and the median male age now 33.6 per the CIA World Factbook— limiting available military age men. The officer added that the Iranian military remains underfunded and had relatively little influence over decision-making, compared with the IRGC. The latter, he said, is identified with Iran’s hardliners and had been the driving force behind Iran’s attacks on Israel last year.
Arash, the retired Iranian officer, said that “all the soldiers in the military feel estranged from the IRGC, from this regime. I can even say that 60% of soldiers in the IRGC hate it.”
Javad, a former IRGC mullah, said, “The military generally comprises the lower classes, so they have negative thoughts about the regime, compared with the IRGC.”
Javad also reported that the IRGC was “shocked” by Israel’s assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh at a Guard guesthouse in Tehran in July.
Of course they were. How could they have imagined that Allah would allow the Jews such a victory over his own best beloveds? “You can see the IRGC didn’t put out a statement,” he said.
He also noted that the IRGC “has lost a very strong front in Syria” when Iran-backed President Bashar al-Assad was deposed in December. “That front has fallen to Israel’s hands. Now, the Syrian regime is attacking Lebanon on behalf of Israel’s interests.
On their own rather than Israel’s, of course. But the sillies dare to believe they are Allah’s preferred brand, which goes to show. And that was a very fatal blow.”
According to Channel 12, Javad had become recently disillusioned with the Islamic Republic after the regime harassed him over a personal matter. The falling-out was said to have cost Javad his religious privileges and hurt his social status.
“I’m a Shiite, and until this incident, there have been many videos of me taking part in rallies and such,” he said. “But I’m happy my mind has opened up. I consider them enemies, those who say Israel… is corrupt, when they themselves are corrupt.”
“The corruption at the top has doubled,” he said. “The corruption and prostitution in Iran have doubled.”
He proceeded to illustrate his compatriots’ discontent with their government’s generous support for Palestinian terror groups even as Iranians suffer from international sanctions on their economy.
“I was in Tehran on a mission,” he said. “One of the IRGC kids said, jokingly, ‘death to Palestine,’ and we all laughed.”
“Even so,” Javad added, “he knew that if he really wanted to say something tomorrow… [the regime] will easily assassinate him.”
The interviews were broadcast as the US struck Houthi targets in Yemen and warned Iran to stop supporting the rebels, who have threatened to resume attacks on Red Sea shipping and Israel. Iran responded on Sunday that Washington has “no authority” to dictate Iran’s foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Khamenei last week rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer to negotiate a deal for the White House to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for oversight of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities.
The Trump dawa, providing an opportunity for peaceful surrender before turning to the non-peaceful approach, just as the Prophet Mohammed modelled. Like Alinsky, the method is available to all… Trump — who scrapped such a deal in his first term — has indicated the alternative to a deal would be airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
See? Though Tehran has said its nuclear program is strictly peaceful, it has enriched uranium to near-weapons-grade levels unfit for civilian use.
*shrug* Everyone knows it’s taqqiya, or one of the other required Moslem lies. Israeli officials have repeatedly indicated that Jerusalem could take advantage of Iran’s low air defenses to strike the nuclear facilities.
Speaking to Channel 12, Javad said, “I live with the hope… that in coming months I’ll see this happen. Israel against Iran — in the end it’s in the hands of the US. The Iranians understand that, too.”
Deus vult.
|
Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-17 00:00||
||
Front Page|| [11138 views ]
Top
File under: Govt of Iran
|
|
19:49 Elmerert Hupens2660
19:33 Glenmore
19:11 Frank G
18:53 Regular joe
18:35 Regular joe
17:30 trailing wife
16:38 Rambler
15:59 Secret Master
15:42 Super Hose
15:37 Pancho Poodle8452
15:26 Pancho Poodle8452
13:48 NoMoreBS
13:37 NoMoreBS
13:18 Skidmark
13:12 Pancho Poodle8452
13:09 Skidmark
13:09 Clem+Elmish4239
13:08 Clem+Elmish4239
13:06 alanc
12:48 Besoeker
12:48 Besoeker
12:37 Frank G
12:35 SteveS
12:22 Grom the Affective
|
