In video, Iran threatens to raze Tel Aviv, destroy Dimona if Israel hits nuke sites

The Times of Israel reports: “Iran’s state broadcaster has aired a video describing what it claims would be the response to an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, warning that Israeli targets would be destroyed within minutes and that a follow-up wave of rocket attacks would ‘raze Tel Aviv.’

The video aired on Iran’s state-controlled IRIB TV2 on December 17, and was reported upon by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute monitor group on Monday.

Israel has vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and has repeatedly said it has the right to act in striking Iranian facilities to prevent what it sees as an existential threat.

In the clip, narrator Younes Shadlou began by noting that Israel had recently held exercises with the US to simulate an attack on Iran.

‘Let’s assume that Israeli jets manage to reach the Natanz nuclear site in one piece’ and manage to damage it, Shadlou posited, referring to a major facility buried under a mountain where Iran has installed advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium.

‘Even if they manage to leave Iran’s sky safely,’ he continued, it would take the jets ‘at least an hour’ to return to their base.

‘The question is whether there would be any base for them to land at,’ Shadlou said…”

The post In video, Iran threatens to raze Tel Aviv, destroy Dimona if Israel hits nuke sites appeared first on JVIM.