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| | Threatening to nuke and/or wipe off Israel of the map has been made by Iran including in 1991,<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-04-mn-23412-story.html COLUMN ONE]: Hezbollah: The Latin Connection : Bombings in Argentina and Panama prompt concern over the radical group's growing presence in the region. Experts say lax security and porous borders create a prime base for terrorists, by Tracy Wilkinson, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, August 04, 1994.<blockquote> | | Threatening to nuke and/or wipe off Israel of the map has been made by Iran including in 1991,<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-04-mn-23412-story.html COLUMN ONE]: Hezbollah: The Latin Connection : Bombings in Argentina and Panama prompt concern over the radical group's growing presence in the region. Experts say lax security and porous borders create a prime base for terrorists, by Tracy Wilkinson, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, August 04, 1994.<blockquote> |
| − | The embassy's cultural affairs officer, Imam Mohsen Rabbani, rose. "Israel," he intoned in accented Spanish, "must disappear from the face of the Earth." He and a dozen speakers who followed quoted Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and called for unity in the fight against Zionism and the satanism of the West</blockquote></ref> in 2001,<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20011217215125/https://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html Iran's Rafsanjani Suggests Nuclear Attack on Israel]," World Tribune (London), December 17, 2001.<blockquote><font size=1> | + | The embassy's cultural affairs officer, Imam Mohsen Rabbani, rose. "Israel," he intoned in accented Spanish, "must disappear from the face of the Earth." He and a dozen speakers who followed quoted Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and called for unity in the fight against Zionism and the satanism of the West</blockquote></ref><ref>Iran's Strategic Penetration of Latin America. United States: Lexington Books, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oqDYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 15].<blockquote> |
| | + | Mohsen Rabbani, who in 1991 stood before a group of Shi'ite Muslims and radical right-wing Argentine activists and stated openly, “Israel must disappear from the face of the Earth,” to universal applause.</blockquote></ref> in 2001,<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20011217215125/https://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html Iran's Rafsanjani Suggests Nuclear Attack on Israel]," World Tribune (London), December 17, 2001.<blockquote><font size=1> |
| | One of Iran’s most influential ruling clerics called on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only". | | One of Iran’s most influential ruling clerics called on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only". |
| | The speech by former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani failed to catch the attention of the western press but made waves in the Middle East. | | The speech by former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani failed to catch the attention of the western press but made waves in the Middle East. |