Via Times of Israel:

In a sermon carried on state TV, an Iranian cleric threatened that his country will “raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground” and target US bases.

Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani, whose Friday sermon was translated on Sunday by MEMRI, a US-based media watchdog group, spoke extensively about Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities. Movahedi-Kermani claimed that Tehran would use Iranian-made Sejjil missiles against Israel as a defensive deterrent if Jerusalem ever decided to attack the Islamic Republic.

“If such a mistaken idea of attacking Iran occurs to Israel one day, we will, as our supreme leader said, raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground,” the cleric warned.

The sermon, which was carried by Iran’s Channel One, a government-owned station, also threatened US bases in the region, declaring that neither the United States nor Israel was safe from Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities.

“The Sejjil ballistic missile can hit and raze to the ground any place in Israel, as well as any American base in the region,” the ayatollah claimed, adding that all of “Israel’s atomic or missile centers… are within range of the powerful, fast, and awe-inspiring missiles of Iran.”