Iran Threatens Israel With Destruction "In 11 Days"?

Could this be real? If so, we may see our whole world turned upside down in the next week-and-a-half. You can be sure that, if the Israeli military considers this a credible threat, Iran will soon be receiving a visit.

From Jihad Watch:

A strange and ominous report from a German publication.

Here is my rough translation of "'Zerstörung in elf Tagen': Iran bedroht Israel," by Ulrich W. Sahm in n-tv.de, May 3 (thanks to The Total Collapse):

Iran has for the first time announced the destruction of Israel with a concrete goal. Israeli television showed an interview with the Iranian chief of staff General Attalah Salihi. He announced the "destruction of Israel within eleven days."

The Arabia expert Oded Granot explained: "Never have we heard so clear and open an announcement from Iran." President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again and again announced the destruction of Israel in a general manner and as a political goal, but never so concretely and with a date, as did Salihi. Granot has not discovered why the destruction of Israel should happen in eleven days....

It strikes me that this could be the beginning of a campaign of disinformation thrown out by Iran, as a means of confusing and diluting the importance of their repeated threats against Israel. By so doing, they will encourage the appeasing nature of the West to attach less and less credibility to their threats, and thus lull us to sleep. They might also believe they could lull Israel to sleep with such rhetoric.

And then, one day when we least expect it ...

Midnight Rider adds:

Shit may be in the wind here, gang. SOMEBODY knows what the other is up to. This post from Carl in Jerusalem yesterday:

Another sign the attack on Iran is coming

Here's another sign that Israel is preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities: France's L'Express is reporting that Israeli aircraft practiced refueling in mid-air recently.Here's the translation of the L'Express report:

Aircraft of the Israeli air force had recently conducted exercises in the air
refueling between Israel and Gibraltar. The magnitude -3,800 kilometers of this
field maneuvers confirms that the IDF is preparing concrete praperations for air
strikes on Iran if Tehran continues to refuse to negotiate with the
international community on the nuclear issue.

Something tells me that Iran's agreeing to 'negotiate' isn't going to be enough to stop this attack from coming.

UPDATE 12:00 PM
Haaretz, YNet and Arutz Sheva have all picked up on this report.

Haaretz connects it to the story in the Times of London two weeks ago that indicated that Israel is preparing to be able to attack Iran within a matter of hours of a government decision to do so. Defense Minister Barak's office denied that story, but I suspect there is more truth to the story than to its denial.

YNet connected the story to both the Times of London story as well as to last summer's story about the IAF carrying out maneuvers over Greece, a story that has not been denied. In that exercise, the IAF practiced against the Russian S-300 radar that it fears will be supplied to Iran.

But Arutz Sheva points out the most important thing about this story: The distance to Gibraltar (in one direction) is 3,800 kilometers (2,361 miles) and the IAF did that distance round trip. The exercise to Greece last summer was 900 miles in each direction - a distance that would approximate the distance to Iran if Israel were granted rights to overfly Iraq. The mission carried out in Sudan in January was a similar distance.

But flying to Gibraltar is a much greater distance than anything Israel has undertaken before. And while I have not done the numbers, I would bet that 2,361 miles is about the distance from the Palmahim Air Force base to Iran if the IAF has to get there without flying over Jordan or Iraq. And now the IAF has proven that it can get there and back.

Heh.