The Islamic Republic’s intention to launch a military attack on Israel in response to the elimination of Ismail Haniyeh is Khamenei playing with fire.

My question to the military forces in Iran is: what benefit does our nation gain from a military confrontation with Israel over the death of a terrorist who should never have set foot in Iran? Is it not the case that the rulers of the Islamic Republic, with their obsessive mania for destroying a country that neither borders us nor is our enemy, have impoverished Iranians and placed Iran at risk of a devastating war? How long must our nation bear the cost of this medieval lot’s hatred of America and Israel?

As I have said before: This is not Iran’s war. It is Khamenei’s war.

Those who wear our nation’s uniform do so to defend Iran and Iranians against enemies. Since at least December 2017, the Iranian people have loudly and clearly shouted in streets across the country that their enemy is the Islamic Republic, not America or Israel. Stand with the Iranian nation and against their occupying enemy, the oppressive, illegitimate, and unlawful regime of the Islamic Republic.

MARANATHA!