The JPost uses Hasbara just as Iran uses rhetoric. Still, the climate in the ME has changed over the past 3-4 years. This “threat” is not hollow.

Iran will destroy Haifa and Tel Aviv if Israel takes “the slightest action” against it, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Tuesday during an Army Day address, according to the Iranian Tasnim media agency.

“The extra-regional and American forces should leave the region as soon as possible because it is in their own interest and in the interest of the region,” he said.

The balance isn’t shifting. It has shifted. It would be best for all parties to FINALLY! settle into solving their own problems and cease the idiotic, suicidal war drumming.

Aside from pure, irrational hatred.

Israel was behind Sunday morning’s drone strike on an Iranian munitions facility, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing American officials. The strike, which Iran says it thwarted, came after the US and Israel held a series of meetings and military exercises.

One explosives-laden drone was shot down by an Iranian air defense system while two others crashed into a protective mesh above a military workshop in the city of Isfahan in the early hours of the morning, Iran’s Defense Ministry said.

While wicked republicons may take delight in this stupidity, slightly more intelligent people, in Israel and elsewhere, should expect a little – I hope this is translated right – מכה לאחור.

UPDATE: I strongly suspect THIS had something to do with it. The game has now fully changed.