The IRGC threatened to attack the Dimona nuclear facility, as well as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, in tweets.
A Twitter account ostensibly run by the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday threatened to blow up the city of Dimona in the Negev desert, where a nuclear installation is located.
The Jerusalem Post can reveal that the IRGC account, with its 12,100 followers, depicted a video showing multiple explosions in a desert. “Then on the day we [God] will deal you the fiercest blow. We will surely inflict punishment, “ the IRGC wrote in Arabic, citing a quote from the Koran, adding the Hashtag “Dimona.” At the top of the video, the date 2021-12-24 is listed with a timer next to it. The video runs for eighteen seconds.
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The account provides a link to the IRGC’s Telegram account, with its 376,084 subscribers. Both the IRGC Twitter account and Telegram account shows the IRGC logo—an arm raised while clutching a rifle.
The IRGC Arabic account only follows the Farsi language Twitter account of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khameni, and a backup account for IRGC Arabic—perhaps in the event that its Twitter feed is suspended or deleted.
A December 13 Tweet from the IRGC account declared “In the event of foolishness on the part of the Zionist regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran is no longer ready to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa, but to liberate holy Quds. If the security of the holy land of Iran is compromised, no one will taste the moment of security, whether those who are at 1,000 km or at 10,000 km.“
Quds is the Arabic name for the capital of Israel, Jerusalem.
Sheina Vojoudi, an Iranian dissident who fled the Islamic Republic due to repression and who closely tracks Iranian regime social media activity, told The Jerusalem Post that “An army is supposed to protect and defend the people and the soil of its country but I don’s see any sign of my country in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, no name of Iran or the Iranian people is even mentioned in it. The Persian term Sepah-e Pasdaran has a great value and has its root in ancient Persian but the IRGC ruined it. Why should the IRGC publish its statements mostly in Arabic while the official language of Iran is Persian and most of the people in Iran speak and everyone understands Persian? Because it’s talking to its proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, Hashd al Shabi and the other entities under its commands not the Iranian people. The IRGC’s priority is the complete destruction of Israel and to follow Khomeini’s Ideology instead of defending its own people.”
In 2019, the US government designated the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization. The American state department—under both democrat and republican administrations—has classified the Iranian regime as the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism. The IRGC is estimated to have murdered over 600 US military personnel in the Middle East.
The London-based Iran International reported on its Twitter account on Friday: The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency says the Revolutionary Guards have simulated missile strikes against Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility in the ‘Great Prophet 17’ military exercises.”
The Post reported last week that an Arabic language Twitter account of the Islamic Republic of Iran published an image on December 17 that showed the planned burned elimination of the Jewish state in 2022.
The picture shows Israel composed of nails and matches and a book of matches next to words in Hebrew and English declaring: “Just try and you will see.”
The book of matches, which is situated next to Israel in the image, says “Ballistic matchstick” and shows an Iranian regime flag on it.
The apparent message is that the clerical regime is prepared to detonate the matches to destroy Israel in 2022.
In late November the spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s armed forces, Brig.-Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, urged the total elimination of the Jewish state during an interview with an Iranian regime-controlled media outlet.
“We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimeter. We want to destroy Zionism in the world,” Shekarchi told the Iranian Students News Agency.
On December 15 the Tehran Times wrote on its front page “One wrong move,” with military targets listed within Israel.
As reported by The Jerusalem Post