Iran says it has plans to destroy Israel before its "second step of the revolution"

Usually, when Iran threatens Israel with destruction, it throws in a caveat that it will only do so if it is attacked first.

Today, that seems to have changed.

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri says capacities have been developed for a destruction and elimination of the Zionist regime, Tasnim reported.

Pointing to the regional and extra-regional adversaries’ fear of the growing power of the Islamic Republic in West Asia and the Mediterranean coasts, the top general noted, “Before entering the second step of the (Islamic) Revolution, the capacities for the annihilation of the Zionist regime and, by God’s grace, the elimination of the fake, child-murdering and odious regime from the political geography of the region has been prepared.”

The second step of the revolution is an initiative that Ayatollah Khamenei began in 2019 to energize the country's youth who weren't alive during the 1979 revolution.

While the statement is open to interpretation, this threat sounds much more specific in its timeframe than previous threats.

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