By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries and the ASSIST News Service
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (ANS – May 24, 2015) -- Iranian officials have been “thrown into a fit” over “distorted comments” attributed to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon that have swept across the internet and include popular anti-Israel sites, says the Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com) , in a dramatic story.
A report by Iran’s Fars news agency on Wednesday claimed that the defense minister supposedly said “We are going to hurt Lebanese civilians to include kids of the family. We went through a very long deep discussion … we did it then, we did it in [the] Gaza Strip, we are going to do it in any round of hostilities in the future,” while speaking at an unnamed “conference in Jerusalem.”
“The
quote was most likely based on Ya’alon’s comments from the May 5 Shurat
Hadin conference,” said the Jerusalem Post. “He was recounting
targeting decisions in which he was involved when it first became
apparent that Hezbollah was purposely placing weapons in civilian homes
in Lebanon.”The paper corrected the quote saying the defense minister actually said, “If we don’t intercept the rocket-launchers in advance, civilians will be hurt, if not killed. If we hit the launchers, it will hurt or kill Lebanese civilians.” He also said a “long, deep discussion” regarding the “moral and legal considerations” took place before the final decision to strike the rocket launcher.
Another quote attributed to Ya’alon, for which a basis could not be found, claimed that Israel would act “as the Americans did in 'Nagasaki and Hiroshima, causing at the end the fatalities of 200,000.’”
The Jerusalem Post stated that in response, Iranian Major General Rahim Safavi threatened Israel with violence, saying that “the Zionists and the US are aware of the power of Iran and Hezbollah, and they know that over 80,000 (Iranian) missiles are ready to rain down on Tel Aviv and Haifa.”
“We
have displayed part of our military capabilities while we have kept
many of our achievements and capabilities hidden to outsiders,” a
comment which comes just a month after P5+1 countries agreed to a
framework deal with Iran. “Our response will be crushing not just to the
Zionist regime, but to any other aggressor who intends to take action
against us.The Jerusalem Post added that Iran’s UN envoy Gholam Ali Khoshrou also mistook the exaggerated statements for real and issued a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. “Moshe Ya’alon’s recent remarks and the Zionist official's implied reference to the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Islamic Republic like what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and also his threats against the Lebanese civilians, including the women and children, shows more than ever the regime's aggressive nature.”
Photo captions: 1) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. 2) Sign in the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem. 3) Dan Wooding reporting for TV from Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.
About
the writer: Dan Wooding, 74, is an award-winning journalist who was
born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, now living in Southern
California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for nearly
52 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren
who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of
ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News
Service (ANS) and he hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on the
KWVE Radio Network in Southern California and which is also carried
throughout the United States and around the world, and also “His Channel
Live,” a TV show beamed to 192 countries. Dan has reported from Israel,
the West Bank and Gaza, on ten different occasions.Note: If you would like to help support the ASSIST News Service, please go to www.assistnews.net and click on the DONATE button to make you tax-deductible gift (in the US), which will help us continue to bring you these important stories.
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