From Memri
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Representative in IRGC: 32 U.S. Bases Are Within Range of Iranian Missiles

On January 4, 2009, the Iranian website Khabaronline reported that Hojat-Ol-Eslam Mojtaba Zolnour, representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), had told reporters that “in the event of the slightest aggression against Iran, every one of the U.S.’s 32 bases in the region is within range of Iranian missiles.”

:snip saber rattling:

In further remarks to reporters, Zolnour said: “Just like other zealous Iranians, the IRGC sees the defense and support of the oppressed people of Gaza as a [religious] obligation, and will follow this path, by encouraging assistance to the oppressed people of Gaza and by popular protests against the crimes being committed [against them].”

Stating that Hamas was not fighting like a classic army with conventional arms against the occupier, Zolnour said that Hamas understood the history of defeat of the enemy forces … “All Gaza residents, their homes, and the Hamas forces form a barricade…

“Hamas is deploying a trained force of 80,000 at least, whose members are dispersed among the people - and the most important thing is that the Gaza people’s culture of resistance and faith ensures the definitive victory of Islam.”

He said that a ground battle “offered the best opportunity for disabling the invading enemy and avenging the martyrs’ blood, especially that of the women and defenseless children of Gaza,” he added, “Surely Hamas and the people of Gaza are able to withstand the most severe pressure – but they cannot withstand the silence of international organizations, which is harming them the most.

“The shameful and traitorous behavior of the leaders of some Islamic countries, in going along with Islam’s primary enemy in the world, is worse than the silence of the international organizations… There is proof and there are witnesses that without such shameful cooperation, the Zionist regime would not dare to commit such an act…”

He concluded by saying that that the reason for the slavish behavior by some Islamic countries’ leaders was the U.S.’s ’scare Iran’ project and those countries’ panic at the spread of revolutionary Islam.

First he admits that the fighters are “dispersed among the people” as an Islamic strategy, and then goes on to claim he cares about the women and children they put in harms way on purpose to cull world sympathy?

He also admits Israel is “Islam’s primary enemy”. It is not about land. They are a speck of freedom on Dar al Islam and Islamic “pride” just can’t take it.