Mehdi Atash Jaam, project manager of the game’s production, told Fars on Saturday that “the anti-Zionist game displays Iran’s missile power and the Zelzal, Zolfaqar and Sejjil missiles (all Iranian domestic missiles – ed.) are used by the players in the game’s first stage.”

“In this game, users break into the Zionist regime’s air defense and target Israel,” Atash Jaam said.

The project manager said that game threatening Israel with destruction was made in “retaliation for the console game, ‘Battlefield,’ that includes scenes simulating attacks on Tehran and its Milad Tower.”

The reference apparently is to a multiplayer map in the massively popular video game Battlefield 3 – the game was not made by Israel, but rather by EA’s Swedish subsidiary developer DICE.

For Quds Day millions took to the streets in Tehran and cities around Iran, chanting “Death to Israel” as well as “Death to America,” and burning the flags of both countries, in an annual custom first instituted on August 7, 1979 by then-Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini just after the Islamic Revolution.

But despite the open calls for destruction – and now the game simulating a missile attack on Israel – world powers led by the US continue to extend talks with Iran on its nuclear program, in negotiations to reach a deal that critics warn will pave the Shi’ite nation’s path to a nuclear arsenal just as a similar deal with North Korea did in the 1990s.