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	MEMRI Daily: March 8, 2013   MEMRI | MEMRI TV | JIHAD AND TERRORISM THREAT MONITOR | SOUTH ASIA STUDIES PROJECT
	Former Iranian Official: The Countdown To Attacking Israel Has Begun – 'With Hopes Of Completely Eradicating [It] From The Planet' Iranian Cleric Kazem Sedighi: If We Wanted Nuclear Weapon, America Would Not Be Able To Prevent Us Special Dispatch No. 5226   Former Iranian Official: The Countdown To Attacking Israel Has Begun – 'With Hopes Of Completely Eradicating [It] From The Planet' In response to reports on a January 29, 2013 Israeli attack in Syria, Ali Reza Forghani, a supporter of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and former governor of Kish province, published an article titled "Countdown to an Attack on Israel," calling on Tehran and Syria to take this golden opportunity for a retaliatory strike against Israel that will destroy it once and for all. In the article, which was published on regime websites, Forghani stated that the war in Syria today is merely the prelude to a nuclear third world war between the "Axis," led by the U.S., and the "Allies," led by Iran, that will bring about the end of humanity. This is not Forghani's first call to destroy Israel. In a February 4, 2012 article titled "Iran Must Attack Israel by 2014," he claimed that doing so was a religious obligation, and that Iran was capable of annihilating Israel in under nine minutes. Previously, on June 10, 2012, a number of regime websites published an article by Forghani in which he called on the Islamic world to assert its right to possess nuclear weapons in order to create a balance of terror with its enemies. He wrote: "Since according to the fatwa of Imam Khomeini all Islamic countries are considered Islamic blood, the Islamic world must awaken from its hibernation and must disturb the sleep of America and Israel, and must shout, 'An an atomic bomb is our right!' "Yes," he continued, "nuclear weapons are a right – and if this right did not exist, Israel would have been destroyed forever 30 years ago... Nuclear weapons are necessary to prevent America from doing whatever it wants. In accordance with the words of Imam Khamenei [sic] 'As we are attacked, so shall we respond,' there is a need for a swift response on the atomic-bomb level. Atomic bomb now!" Ali Reza Forghani Click here to read the full report. Special Dispatch No. 5225   Iranian Cleric Kazem Sedighi: If We Wanted Nuclear Weapon, America Would Not Be Able To Prevent Us Following are excerpts from a Tehran Friday sermon delivered by Iranian cleric Kazem Sedighi, which aired on Iranian channel 1 TV on March 1, 2013. Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV. Kazem Sedighi: "The claim made by some news agencies that Iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium to 20% is nonsensical and baseless. The Iranian nation has the unequivocal right to possess scientific and industrial nuclear [plants], and the percentage of enrichment is nobody’s business. "Iran will implement this right in order to meet its needs. It has never feared any power and will not in the future." Click here to read the full report.