Iran threatened to hit Tel Aviv and Haifa with 80,000 missiles. Photo: IDF.

Jerusalem Post – Iranian officials have been thrown into a fit over distorted comments attributed to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon that have swept across the internet and include popular anti-Israel sites.

A report by Iran’s Fars news agency on Wednesday claimed that the defense minister supposedly said “We are going to hurt Lebanese civilians to include kids of the family. We went through a very long deep discussion … we did it then, we did it in [the] Gaza Strip, we are going to do it in any round of hostilities in the future,” while speaking at an unnamed “conference in Jerusalem.”

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