"TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will eliminate Israel if it launches a military attack on the Islamic state, a senior army commander was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Deputy commander-in-chief Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was echoing Iran's late founder of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who said Israel should be wiped off the map.
statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying "Israel should be wiped off the map", outraged the international community.
Support for the Palestinian cause is a central pillar of the Islamic Republic which officially has refused to recognize Israel's right to exist since the Islamic Revolution.
Tehran denies accusations it trains and arms Palestinian militant groups, saying it only offers only moral support." '
This article foreshadows a possible militaristic confrontation between Israel and Iran. These verbal attacks from Iran are an example of the continuing conflict between worshipers Judaism and Islam.
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