Well okay. Glad he cleared that up.
Nevertheless, his new book, described at Gatestoneinstitute.org at The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine lays out some of the points. Basically, Israel is still target number one. Maybe this is supposed to make him seem noble, but if this analysis can be believed, he doesn't intend to level Israel into a mass of radiated rubble. He merely wants to use a nuclear threat to discourage a preemptive strike.
Instead he wants the daily threat of death to demoralize Israelis and encourage emigration to the U.S. and Europe. Here's an excerpt from the Gatestone article:
In Khamenei's analysis, once the cost of staying in Israel has become too high for many Jews, Western powers, notably the U.S., which has supported the Jewish state for decades, might decide that the cost of doing so is higher than possible benefits.
Thanks to President Obama, the U.S. has already distanced itself from Israel to a degree unimaginable a decade ago.
Khamenei counts on what he sees as "Israel fatigue." The international community would start looking for what he calls "a practical and logical mechanism" to end the old conflict.
Will this plan come to pass? We'll have to wait and see. The next U.S. president might not be as indifferent toward Israel as the current one. Then again, it's almost inevitable that Iran will have a nuclear weapon as a result of Obama's style of diplomacy.
Via a Investor's Business Daily editorial which compared the Ayatollah's book to another notorious manifesto, Mein Kampf.
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