ISIS Vows War Against Iran: Islamic State Group Threatens Ayatollah Ali Khamenei For Tolerating Jews

A new video released by the Islamic State group (also called ISIS) Monday threatened to attack Iran for its role in the region's conflicts and its tolerance of Jews. The 36-minute video, titled “The Farsi Land: From Yesterday ’till Today,” surfaced on several ISIS social media channels, according to media reports.

While the authenticity of the video could not be confirmed, the Times of Israel reported the clip shows a masked man directing his message to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Oh, Khamenei, you cursed person who controls the so-called Islamic Iranian regime, rest assured that soon we will destroy your house like this,” the man in the video said, pointing to ruins behind him.

“Iran raised its slogans against the U.S. and Israel to deceive the Sunnis, while Iranian Jews live safely in Iran under its protection, and it has provided them with temples and churches as seen in Tehran and Isfahan,” the narrator says.

The video also shows several soldiers captured by the extremist group being decapitated. While it was unclear who the soldiers were, one of them is reportedly seen wearing a “Ya Hossein” badge, giving rise to speculation that he was a Shiite fighter.

Iran, which has a majority of Shiite Muslims, has backed Syria and Iraq in its fight against ISIS. The country has also sent thousands of fighters and military advisers to support Syrian and Iraqi troops.

“We will conquer Iran and restore it to the Sunni Muslim nation as it was before,” another man says in the video.

This is not the first time the Sunni-hardline militant group has threatened Iran.

Last year, the group's newly appointed chief spokesman not only promised attacks on Iran but also on the U.S., Russia and Europe. At the time, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, the successor to Abu Muhammad al-Adnani — who was killed in a U.S. drone strike near al-Bab, Syria, on Aug. 30, 2016 — called for an immediate attack on Turkey when he told ISIS supporters to target “the secular, apostate Turkish government in every security, military, economic and media place, even every embassy and consulate that represents it in all the world's countries.”

On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi predicted the militant group will be pushed out of the region "within weeks," but terrorism will continue until the extremist group was defeated in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.