Times Of Israel Falsifies Iranian Quote

April 28, 2013

Under the headline Hezbollah will ‘wipe out’ Israel in war, Iran says one Aaron Kalman writes for the Times of Israel:

The semi-official FARS news agency quoted Sepehr as
saying that Hezbollah’s sizable stockpile of rockets can overcome
Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, and if Israel and Hezbollah
engage in war, “the resistance front will wipe out Israel.”

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The link in that ToI paragraph goes to a Fars News Agency piece headlined IRGC Official Warns Israel against Invasion of Lebanon. That piece includes this paragraph:

He warned Israel of the heavy costs of any possible aggression against Lebanon, and stated, "If a (similar) 33-day war (against Lebanon) happens again, Hezbollah and the resistance front will wipe off Israel."

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It would be wrong to wipe out hasbara liars like Mr. Aaron Kalman. But they should be wiped off the pages of the Internet.

(h/t Nima Shirazi)

Posted by b on April 28, 2013 at 18:29 UTC | Permalink

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These misrepresentations remind me of how middle eastern protestors were always shown with “death to america” signs. And never was there any explanation that people say “death to traffic” or “death to bad cellphone reception.”

Posted by: Crest | Apr 29 2013 3:23 utc | 1

I’m beginning to think ‘Israelis’ have a dominant death-wish gene.
Hagel was already pissed off with ‘Israel’ when he was anointed as US Def Sec. He was so pissed off with them when they pulled the “Syria chemical weapons” bullshit out of their asses (the day after he returned to the US after talking to ‘Israeli’ defense honchos) that he poured cold water on their claim and all but told them to stfu. The MSM took its cue from Hagel and all the MSM reports I heard addressing the chemical weapons claims ended with ‘subject to verification’ disclaimers.
If the ‘Israelis’ want Hagel to tell them to stfu unambiguously and publicly, all they need to do is keep making stuff up and pissing him off even more.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 29 2013 5:49 utc | 2

Cutting through all the contrived self-pity from ‘Israel’ here’s an article about ‘Israeli’ chemical weapons (and compassion)…
Israel gives up White Phosphorous because it Doesn’t Photograph Well
http://972mag.com/israel-gives-up-white-phosphorus-because-it-doesnt-photograph-well/70063/
For people with strong stomachs there’s a photo of female target of WP which shows just how un-photogenic an ‘Israeli’ Chemical Weapon can make its victims.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 29 2013 6:46 utc | 3

Just found this ugly photograph of what “freedom fighters” do to Christian girls in Syria:
http://www.leveilleurdeninive.com/2013/04/cette-photographie-nous-est-parvenue.html
How can our governments support those criminals?

Posted by: alan412 | Apr 29 2013 13:46 utc | 4

“If the ‘Israelis’ want Hagel to tell them to stfu unambiguously and publicly, all they need to do is keep making stuff up and pissing him off even more.”
That would be nice. But the truth, as we all know, is that Hagel will do as he is told.
At the very most he will threaten to resign. Beyond that matters of war and peace are above his pay grade. As they are above Obama’s.
The current situation in the middle east suits the ruling class very well they have the most reliable thug in the region- Israel- on the payroll. And the cost is minuscule: a few billion bucks per annum; which brings them not only the surrogate military but an international claque of liars and loudmouths howling that anti-imperialism is just a new form of anti-semitism. And that to support freedom is to risk another Auschwitz; while to criticise racism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is to argue for the expulsion of Europeans from the lands they have stolen.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 29 2013 15:19 utc | 5

bevin @ 5:
“The current situation in the middle east suits the ruling class very well they have the most reliable thug in the region- Israel- on the payroll. And the cost is minuscule: a few billion bucks per annum; which brings them not only the surrogate military but an international claque of liars and loudmouths howling that anti-imperialism is just a new form of anti-semitism. And that to support freedom is to risk another Auschwitz; while to criticise racism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is to argue for the expulsion of Europeans from the lands they have stolen.”
Excellent summation on the mid-east situation.

Posted by: ben | Apr 29 2013 15:37 utc | 6

The Israeli press has to stoke those Holocaust fears. It has become part of the Jewish State Religion. Of course Iran wants to kill all the Jews!
It’s just like the US media hyping the Tsarnaev brothers’ terrorist threat. Let’s just wallow in our self pity and sense of victimization.
It’s good for security budgets…

Posted by: JohnH | Apr 29 2013 15:42 utc | 7

@2
Baloney on Hagel. He ignited the chemical issue with news on the letters and the White House had to stifle him. Hagel is (I can’t believe it’s possible) worse than Pinetta.
Apr 25
Hagel, speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi, said the White House has informed two senators by letter that, within the past day, “our intelligence community does assess, with varying degrees of confidence, that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically, the chemical agent sarin.”
-later that day
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2013 – There is evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people, but the world needs “clear evidentiary facts” before acting, a White House official said today.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 29 2013 15:45 utc | 8

Alan. That is a very disturbing picture. There is a hell if it is real.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Apr 29 2013 18:06 utc | 9

@ 8, I haven’t forgotten that Hagel is only Def Sec and not CIC. And I doubt anyone could be worse than Panetta who was a clumsy liar and a simpering tool. I guess one can read whatever one wants into your quotes. You seem to be interpreting them as warmongering. I’m interpreting them as a studious attempt to avoid telling porkies – an approach which wouldn’t have occurred to Panetta.
Hagel and his advisers must be acutely aware that the Road to Damascus is blocked by China and Russia (like the Road to Pyongyang). The Boston bombing got the “existential threat” of NK out of the headlines quick-smart. But, imo, ‘Israel’s’ attempt to fill the NK media vacuum with a tall tale about Syria was an unwelcome invitation for the US to jump out of a Russia-China frying pan into a Russia-China fire.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 29 2013 18:15 utc | 10

“One pro-interventionist turns the argument for the “pivot to Asia” on its head – arguing that if the US does not act in Syria, its Asian allies will conclude that America has lost the will to be a great power.”
Yes, because nothing says “commitment” and “ability to defend one’s allies” like being mired in yet another unending middle eastern war.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/57c06b02-b0b8-11e2-80f9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RseKQ033
It’s no question that the media is pushing the chemical weapons story against the wishes of the DoD and the White House. Some forces seems intent on pushing whatever hold outs are in the administration into Syria. Whoever is concocting all the chemical weapons bullshit, the neocons, the GOP hawks, and Israel presumably…in the lead apparently are fellows like Dennis Ross.
I’ll leave his wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ross
I guess they’ve given up on the whole “arming al Qaeda might be bad” and are going with Lindsey Graham’s “we can deal with those al Qaeda fellas later” calculation. The White House better get on the ball re: the media, and fast, before they get backed into a corner.

Posted by: guest | Apr 29 2013 19:17 utc | 11

@5 I do believe Obama and Hagel have some degree of independence from the neocons, or else we’d be in Syria (and possibly have bombed Iran) already. But maybe I’m wrong. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been called naive.

Posted by: guest | Apr 29 2013 19:27 utc | 12

Totally OT, but perhaps there is a little levity in witnessing atrocious human stupidity that only harms one person instead of millions:
An Indian Guinness World Record holder who attempted to cross a river suspended from a zip wire attached to his ponytail has died during the stunt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22334275
How is there a record for that?

Posted by: guest | Apr 29 2013 19:31 utc | 13

It’s all about Iran.
Senator Lindsey Graham: “If we keep this hands-off approach to Syria, this indecisive action toward Syria, kind of not knowing what we’re going to do next, we’re going to start a war with Iran because Iran’s going to take our inaction in Syria as meaning we’re not serious about their nuclear weapons program,” Mr. Graham said on the CBS News program “Face the Nation.”
The last part starting with “Mr. Graham” is true. Of course Mr. Graham is a lot friendlier to nuclear programs in his own state than he is to ones in Iran. According to Open Secrets Graham’s #1 contributor is Scana Corporation.

Top 20 Contributors
Senator Lindsey Graham 2007 – 2012
1 Scana Corp $130,180

Why is Scana Corp. so generous to Mr. Graham? ThinkProgress:

The $13-billion Cayce, SC-based energy company has long wanted a permit to build two new nuclear reactors at its Jenkinsville, SC, facilities. Graham, one of the Senate’s strongest supporters of nuclear power, actively backed their efforts.
In February, the U.S. Nuclear Research Commission voted to approve the country’s first nuclear reactor construction permits in more than 30 years. Graham celebrated it as “a major step on the road to a nuclear renaissance,” adding, “I am hopeful SCANA and [its state-owned partner] Santee Cooper will be the next in line to receive permits for Jenkinsville.” He reiterated the message on Twitter the next day.

Political corruption? It’s not just in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 29 2013 21:37 utc | 14

According to the Associate Press, Iran isn’t a NPT member state. This is breaking news:
Egypt walks out of nuclear talks in Geneva

The NPT, which has been signed by 190 nations, is the world’s single most important pact on nuclear arms, credited with preventing their spread to dozens of nations since it was adopted. Israel and Iran, along with North Korea, India and Pakistan, remain outside the treaty.

And WaPo, abcnews etc are just going along with it (do these news outlets even have real editors?), just copy/paste any story without so much as running a facts check and let the revenue garnered from advertisements roll in.
Corporate journalism at its finest.

Posted by: never mind | Apr 29 2013 22:20 utc | 15

@12
” The White House better get on the ball re: the media, and fast, before they get backed into a corner.”
It is all a very intricate con game. The argument would be that “public opinion, disgusted by media reports of Syrian government use of chemical weapons, demands immediate punishment, war, no-fly zones etc…”
But the truth is that most people in the US could not give a pinch of canine excrement about who does what to who, around the next corner, leave alone five thousand miles to the east. There is a professional chorus of calamity howling hasbaristas and the Military Industrial Complex (always wondering where the next cost plus contract is coming from) and the former-left which is ready to settle for faux-freedom in the middle east because it is so much easier than fighting the bosses (with all their patronage) at home and so on. But the people- half of whom daren’t go to the dentist, have no healthcare coverage, are struggling to afford the gas to look for work and are dancing in the face of creditors-know nothing about Assad and care less.
I don’t think it would cost the White House anything to tell Dennis Ross to fuck himself and stop dreaming up ways to put hillbilly conscripts in “harm’s way”. In fact I think that there would be a mighty cheer from coast to coast, that would drown out the media warmongers. It’s time for Joseph Heller’s Major-De Coverley to come into the canteen and say ” Give me eat! Give everybody eat!”

Posted by: bevin | Apr 29 2013 22:22 utc | 16

Quite interesting in the FarsNews article that Ayatollah Khamanei’s representative at the IRGC, Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Sepehr, presumably speaking for the Supreme Leader, described potential responses to any Israeli aggression on Lebanon from two sources, and suggested that Iron Dome is vulnerable.
— any act of aggression will meet Hezbollah’s crushing response, even tougher than the response in summer 2006,
— the Mediterranean coasts are now considered as Iran’s boundaries, and
— Hezbollah poses an immediate threat to Israel’s over-hyped, US-financed Iron Dome anti-missile system.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 29 2013 22:26 utc | 17

news item:
GENEVA (AP) — Egypt walked out of a round of global nuclear talks in protest Monday, saying other nations are not acting quickly enough to establish the Middle East as a zone free of nuclear weapons.//
The League of Arab States has long pushed for the Middle East to be a nuclear-weapon-free zone.
That’s good news on Egypt walking out. The Arabs are tired of getting jerked around by the US and Israel on this issue, aided and abetted by the UN-IAEA. They remember the wishy-washy proposals coming out of previous meetings on the subject:
Nov 22, 2011
Nearly 100 nations concluded a two-day meeting on 22 November 2011 at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria. They discussed how the experiences of existing Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zones (NWFZs) might apply to the development of such a zone in the Middle East.
With a view of taking forward the process of the establishment of a NWFZ in the Middle East, the participants proposed:
to continue working towards the establishment of a NWFZ in the Middle East;
to consider declarations of good intentions as a first step to break the current stalemate;
to make the best and most constructive use of every opportunity on the international agenda; and
to identify specific and practical confidence-building measures.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 29 2013 22:47 utc | 18

There’s a long history of Arab worry about Israel’s nukes.
Sep 3 2010
IAEA Board of Governors General Conference — In resolution GC(53)/RES/17, adopted on 18 September 2009, the General Conference:
(a) Expressed “concern about the threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons to the
security and stability of the Middle East”;
(b) Also expressed “concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities,” and called upon “Israel to
accede to the NPT and place all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA safeguards”;
Aug 15 2009
Arab states are lobbying the European Union for support in their drive to force Israel to open up its secretive nuclear program to international perusal, documents show.
Sep 8 2006
On 22 May 2006, the Director General received a request submitted by the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman on behalf of the Arab States that are members of the Agency, for the inclusion of an item entitled “Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat” in the agenda of the 50th regular session of the General Conference.
Aug 8 2005
Yemen: I am writing to you today regarding the news that was uncovered this week concerning Britain’s secret sales to Israel of a key ingredient for the latter’s nuclear program in 1958 enabling her to produce nuclear weapons. This news that was based on official British documents is quite disturbing especially since it indicated that there were no peaceful use conditions posed on the sale nor was there a guarantee to this effect by Israel.
Jul 21 2003
On 5 June 2003, the Secretariat received a request from Arab States that are members of the Agency, as forwarded by the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman, addressed to the President of the 47th regular session of the General Conference, for the inclusion of an item entitled “Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat” in the agenda of the 47th regular session of the General Conference.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 29 2013 23:02 utc | 19

@16 having just finished my first reading of catch-22 just three days ago….just awesome.

Posted by: guest | Apr 30 2013 0:09 utc | 20

I’m just reading “The Grand Chessboard” by Zcantspellit Bnotgonnagoogleit.
Just passed the sentence (paraphrasing) “The greatest threat to the United States would be a Russia/China/Iran alliance, based not ideological consensus, but on common grievances.”

Posted by: guest | Apr 30 2013 0:16 utc | 21

The US Navy for a long time has had at least one aircraft carrier stationed in or near the Persian Gulf (the Navy calls it Arabian Gulf — petty). The truth is that they’ve used this carrier(s) for air assaults, bombing runs, on Afghanistan, which has nothing to0 do with Iran, but we’re not supposed to know that.
Anyhow, if the US ever does decide to attack Iran, which has been talked about for many years now, the US would first have to take some preliminary actions, which would remove any element of surprise, of course. The UN inspectors would have to be warned to leave the sixteen or so facilities they are monitoring, the US aircraft carriers would have to stand off from Iran, US military headquarters in Qatar and UAE would have to be evacuated, small actions like that. (kidding)
The US Navy is concerned about the potential effects of missiles on aircraft carriers, therefore the carrier standoff mentioned. But that would influence the time-on-target of carrier aircraft. Here’s an AOLDefense article on it.

“It’s not just the Chinese,” Forbes told me. North Korea, Iran, and Syria are putting in place some sophisticated anti-aircraft and anti-ship systems, he argued. Even the Lebanese militia group, Hezbollah, managed to cripple an Israeli corvette with a Chinese-built cruise missile in the 2006 war. (Admittedly, the corvette had turned its anti-missile defenses off). “The next decade is going to see a lot of countries with these weapons,” he said. “We should at least have a discussion and a debate about the assumptions we’ve always made that our carriers can operate pretty much wherever they wanted to.”
That presents a problem for the short-ranged fighters that the US spends most of its aircraft budget on. “F-18, F-35 are great platforms,” Forbes said, but studies from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments predict that if future Navy carriers rely on those two aircraft alone, Forbes said, “we can only cover about a third of Iran and we can’t even get to China’s shore.”

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 30 2013 1:32 utc | 22

“Hagel was already pissed off with ‘Israel’ when he was anointed as US Def Sec”
You livin’ on Mars or something? In case you haven’t noticed, Hagel as rolled over, stuck his ass in the air, and offered free lubricant. Do you seriously think he would be in his current position if he was actually going to rock the status quo? Perhaps you should pay attention to what he is actually doing, instead of what you wish he would do.

Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Apr 30 2013 3:06 utc | 23

“Israel and Iran, along with North Korea, India and Pakistan, remain outside the treaty” (AP
There is an effort on right now to actually edit history, as well as (as we see above) infuse the American psyche with a massive blitz of misinformation. This bit about Iran not belonging to the NPT is but one small snippet of the purposeful deluge of pure unadulterated horseshit we are being subjected to by the media whores. Over at Mondo Phil is touting some recent Browen University “study” that claims a combined war death toll, (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq) of 225,000. This includes military AND non-combatants. HUH????? I guess we just flush the Lancet report, eh? Then of course, we have the opening of the Bush Library, where the criminal monkey and his handlers are presented as having committed a mere “oops” in its “mistaken impression” that Saddam had WMDs, all based on “faulty intelligence”.
So carry on folks, history be damned, sure would be nice if Iran would sign onto that thar EnPeeTee thingamajig so them good Jewish folk could sleep at night.

Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Apr 30 2013 3:20 utc | 24

Thtas, uh, “Brown” University. Typo. Oops.

Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Apr 30 2013 3:22 utc | 25

Speaking of Brown, one of the founders being Moses Brown, we have a fresh report from Brown Moses (AKA Eliot Higgins) on an alleged chemical attack on the town of Saraqeb, Idlib, complete with photos and links to Aleppo. Don’t miss the videos.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 30 2013 3:46 utc | 26

The most ridiculous URL ever
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/submarinesisraelnuclearattackiranislamicterrorismweaponsnetanyahuidfmossadhezbollahdronewar48042913.html

Posted by: b | Apr 30 2013 10:17 utc | 27

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