Just days after President Joe Biden lifted sanctions on Iran’s “civilian” nuclear program in a bid to restore the Obama-era deal, the Iranian military has unveiled a long-range missile named after the Jewish oasis destroyed by Prophet Muhammad and his followers in the 7th century.
On Wednesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) presented “Kheibar Shekan,” or the destroyer of Khaybar, a reference to the massacre of the Jewish community in the Arabian Peninsula. “State TV displayed the new surface-to-surface “Kheibar Shekan” (Kheibar buster) missile, which refers to an ancient Jewish oasis called Kheibar in the Arabian Peninsula’s Hijaz region that was overrun by Muslim warriors in the 7th century,” the news agency Reuters reported.
In a 2013 article, the Jerusalem Post explained Khaybar as a reference “to the Muslim massacre of the Jews of the town of that name in northwestern Arabia in 628 CE.” The newspaper added that after “the attack, some Muslims, including Muhammad, took surviving women as wives.”
Reuters reported the latest addition to Iran’s rogue missile arsenal:
Iran unveiled a new domestically-made missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers on Wednesday, state TV reported, a day after Tehran and Washington resumed indirect talks to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal.Iran, which has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East, says its ballistic missiles have a range of up to 2,000 km (1,200 miles) and are capable of reaching its arch-foe Israel and U.S. bases in the region.State TV displayed the new surface-to-surface “Kheibar Shekan” (Kheibar buster) missile, which refers to an ancient Jewish oasis called Kheibar in the Arabian Peninsula’s Hijaz region that was overrun by Muslim warriors in the 7th century.”This long-range missile is domestically manufactured by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) … It has high accuracy and is propelled by solid fuel and is capable of penetrating missile shields,” Iranian state media reported.”Iran will continue advancing its ballistic missile programme,” Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri told a ceremony at an IRGC base where the new missile was displayed, Iranian media reported.
The barbaric events of Khaybar are still invoked at anti-Israel rallies by Muslim protestors to call for the destruction of Israel. Islamists from Berlin to Baghdad chant “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud,” an Arabic battle cry meaning, “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning.”
In recent years, the slogan celebrating Muslim victory over the Jews of Khaybar is often heard at Iran-sponsored annual “Al Quds Day” marches in major Western cities. The battle cry, which calls for the Jewish genocide, was also raised at the 2014 anti-Israel rally in Miami.
The newly-unveiled Kheibar Shekan missile is capable of hitting any target inside Israel. “Israel’s closest point to Iran is some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away,” The Times of Israel noted.
The Mullah regime has made no secret of its intention of hitting Israel as it moves closer towards acquiring a nuclear bomb. In December, the Iranian state-linked newspaper Tehran Times published a list of possible missile targets in a military conflict. The leading Iranian English language daily displayed a map of the Jewish State dotted with markers showing Israeli towns and cities are potential missile targets.
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