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Iranian researcher Ali Akbar Raefipour, the founder of the Masaf Institute, said in a lecture that was uploaded to the Internet on January 13, 2020, that Iran's accurate missiles are on the cutting edge of technology and that Israel is within range of Iran's missiles. He said that since nobody knows where Iran's missile cities are, Iran's enemies would be unable to strike them or take control of them even if Iran collapses. In addition, he said that Iran would empty its missile stockpile on Israel's head before this could happen.
Later in his address, Raefipour said that the environmentalists who were arrested by the IRGC in 2018 and accused of espionage were spies who used the pretext of protecting cheetahs to install GPS trackers on the cheetahs' collars and to search for Iran's missiles using telemetric devices. Furthermore, he warned that Americans will die every day as long as the U.S. stays in the Middle East, and he said that Qasem Soleimani had previously restrained the people who will be targeting Americans, but that Iran will now not know who these people are. For more from Raefipour, see MEMRI TV Clip No. 7757.
Ali Akbar Raefipour: "Our missiles are not precision cruise missiles. Cruise missiles can easily be intercepted. They are like planes. Consider a pilot who decides to crash with precision into a building... [Cruise missiles] have no pilot, but they can be intercepted. However, they failed to intercept a single one of the missiles we used to strike [the American bases]. They are fast and accurate, which means we are on the cutting edge of technology in the world.
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"So they have to take this away from us. Why? Because they know that if they want to attack, we will strike their bases and kill people.
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"[Khamenei] said: 'if you make the slightest mistake, we will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.' Israel is the bottle that contains the life of the Zionist giant. It is within range of our [missiles]. You may have noticed that we always declare that our missiles have a range of 2,000 kilometers. This is enough. If we say more, or if we work to increase the range – we will arouse Europe's sensitivities and they will say that we can strike Europe, as well. There is no need for this. The Zionist regime is what's important. We have no problem with others. That is the danger in our region.
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"Let's say Iran collapses, like they imagine in vain. Let's say Tehran and Mashhad collapse. The missile cities are not located in these places. People don't even know where they are. Let's say they want to attack and take over them. Where will they strike? At most, they would be able to take over some police station. Do you really think that the Iranians will see that everything is going to Hell and give you these missiles on a silver platter? Certainly, before [Iran's] collapse, we would empty our stockpile on Israel's head.
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"Their plan was to strike our missiles before we place them on the launchers. What would they have to do to achieve this? They would have to find their locations. [This is the mission of the] network of environmentalist spies.
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"They were looking for the missiles, under the pretext of protecting the cheetahs.
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"They used this pretext to install GPS [trackers] on the cheetahs' collars and they started searching for the missiles using telemetric devices.
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"America should know that if it wants to stay in the region, some of its people will be killed every day – and we won't know who will be striking them. In the past, Hajj Qasem [Soleimani] had restrained these people, but now, we will not know who they are. Wherever they find Americans, they will 'take care' of them."
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