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April 25, 2019       Share:    

Source: http://jcpa.org/irans-new-revolutionary-guards-commander-threatens-the-u-s-and-israel/

Iran's New Revolutionary Guards Commander Threatens the U.S. and Israel

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Hossein Salami as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), replacing Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Ali Aziz-Jafari, who had served in the job since 2007. Salami, like many of the IRGC's top commanders, is well-known for his fiery rhetoric against Israel, the U.S., and Saudi Arabia. On Jan. 31, 2019, following Israeli Air Force attacks against IRGC and pro-Iranian militias in Syria, Salami said: "We warn the Zionist Regime (Israel) not to play with fire....This will only lead to their disappearance, and they will be destroyed before America hears their cry for help, and they will not have the opportunity to dig enough graves to bury their corpses." The writer, an expert on strategic issues with a focus on Iran, is a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center.

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