Iran has said it could wipe out Israel “in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The comments come after they successfully tested a ballistic missile that had the potential to reach Israeli territory. “We test-fired a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters,” Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi told a Tehran science conference, the Times of Israel reported.
Khamenei has frequently stated that Israel should be destroyed, saying that Israel “has no cure but to be annihilated,” using frictions at the Jerusalem holy site sacred to both Jews and Muslims as a reason for the destruction of the Israeli state.