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 [via terrorist attacks],\” he threatened. \”In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. department head, U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputations/beheadings will be posted on the internet\”