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The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, speaks during a rally outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran on the 45th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, Nov. 3, 2024
(JNS) — Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, threatened a “real and historical confrontation” with Israel, speaking at a military drill in Tehran on Thursday,
“Infidels” will share the fate of the Jews massacred by the prophet Muhammad in 628 C.E., he warned.
“We are standing face to face, and we will fight with you until the end — we will not allow you to dominate the fate of Muslims,” the IRGC head vowed in an address translated by Iran’s Press TV propaganda outlet.
“Most modern armies of the world have come to the aid of the Zionist regime,” Salami said, slamming a “global formation of powers that intend to submit to their will so that they will rule over Muslims’ fate, occupy their land and rob them of their religious identity.
“We will take revenge. You will receive painful blows; keep waiting,” Salami told fellow IRGC members. “Study history; nowhere will you find a place where Muslims submit to infidels, polytheists and hypocrites.
“Look at Khaybar at the beginning of Islam — your fate today will be the same as the fate of the Battle of Khaybar,” continued the terrorist.
Salami’s remarks referred to a seventh-century confrontation between Muhammad’s forces and Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula. After Muslim conquerors attacked and took control of the oasis of Khaybar, they massacred the men and sold their wives and children into slavery.
