My Comment:  This is what they do, the religion of peace.  I don’t approve of action in Syria, but these threats are unacceptable.  Pray for Obama’s family, and for our Embassies and fellow Americans and military in the middle east.

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that “[w]e will support Syria to the end.”

And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama’s daughters should the United States attack Syria.

Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province, threw  down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in  the supreme leader’s camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the  regime’s Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the  blessing of the Islamic regime.

“Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will  see the … loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks],” he threatened.  “In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S.  minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders  around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their  amputation will be spread [around the world].”

A similar act was committed in a video of the  torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in  1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran’s order. That video was dropped off  at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described  what he saw in the video: “They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made  it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and  barbarous.”

via Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family | The Daily Caller.

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