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Source: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8337.htm
Iranian Regime Escalates Threats to Annihilate Israel
(MEMRI) As the Nov. 24 deadline for the Joint Plan of Action between Iran and the P5+1 approached, Iranian officials, mostly from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), significantly ratcheted up their calls to annihilate Israel. One major motif is the arming of the West Bank. In late November, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reiterated that the West Bank will be armed with missiles, as Gaza had been armed, and that Israel's security would deteriorate by the day. IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari predicted that Israel would be eliminated thanks to the missile capabilities of the resistance factions. Basij commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi said that Iran was determined to hold victory prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Members of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee stressed that Leader Khamenei had ordered the West Bank armed in order to hasten Israel's annihilation and that Iran intended to follow those orders.