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November 2, 2011
Iran warns against rumored Israeli military strike
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waits to meet with Iraqi Kurdish Regional President Masoud Barzani in Tehran on Oct. 30. Photo by REUTERS/Caren Firouz
Iran’s top military chief warned that his country would retaliate harshly against an Israeli strike on its nuclear sites, as Israel successfully test fired a new ballistic missile.
Responding to reports that Israel was preparing to launch an attack against Iran, the Islamic Republic’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hassan Fairouz Abadi on Wednesday reportedly told Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency that Iran would strike back hard against Israel and the United States.
“America knows that a Zionist military strike in Iran would cause it major damages in addition to the damages caused to this regime,” Abadi said.
A report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is due next week, and reportedly will offer new details about Iran’s nuclear program.
Also on Wednesday, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview on Israel Radio that most reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are pushing the Cabinet to approve an attack on Iran “have no connection to reality.” Reports to that effect had surfaced the previous day in the Israeli and international media and have caused “tremendous damage,” Lieberman said.
Lieberman also said that Iran continues to pose a dangerous threat to the entire world and that Israel expects the international community to do “much more” regarding Iran, including imposing sanctions.
Saying that the test of a new ballistic missile was preplanned and had no connection to a possible attack on Iran, the Israeli military successfully test fired a ballistic missile Wednesday from Palmachim Airbase in central Israel, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry.
Foreign media believe Israel has missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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If the West doesn’t act soon…ISRAEL WILL!!!
- Comment by Goldstein on 11/02/11 at 11:30 am
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....if the western powers don’t interfere in Iran’s nuclear weapons escalation…sooner or later Israel will be forced to act alone in it’s own defense!...which is probably what everyone’s counting on….then the big western powers can jump all over Israel for the attack…....wink, wink wink!!!...& then breathe a huge sigh of relief!!!
Hiding our heads in the sand to the REAL threat is a very dangerous game.