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Iran vows Dire Revenge if attacked by Israel
Iran will respond with overwhelming military force to any Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities, senior Iranian army officers and government officials warned yesterday. They were responding to a statement made by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Israel Radioâs Persian-language broadcast last week, in which he implied that Israel would destroy Iranâs nuclear reactors, as it did with Iraqâs in the early 1980s, if it deemed this necessary for Israelâs safety. "The Zionist regime knows that the armed forces of the Islamic republic, and especially its air force, have such high capabilities that if [Israel] carries out a military attack against Iran, it will be digging its own grave," said the commander of the Iranian Air Force, General Seyed Reza Pardis, to the Iranian news agency Mehr. Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, said that Israel would be "swept away" if it dared to attack Iran.Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-12-24 |
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