 Iran made horrible faces and threatened yesterday to strike back at Israel or any other country that attacked its nuclear facilities."If Israel or any other country attacks any site in Iran, we know no limits to threaten their interests," Deputy Revolutionary Guards Commander Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr said. "That means anywhere in the world, within their borders or outside it," he said on the sidelines of an anti-US conference in Tehran.
| "We'll rob their banks! We'll steal their stuff! We'll murderlize 'em!" |
Israeli warplanes successfully destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981. Iran has stationed anti-aircraft batteries around its nuclear plants and built many of its facilities underground. Iranian officials have also warned they can strike back at Israel with its medium-range Shahab-3 missile, which can also hit US military bases in the Gulf. Zolqadr denied Iran was developing nuclear weapons, saying the Islamic state preferred to rely on a volunteer militia force, which he said numbered 10 million, to defend the country.
| Yeah, Sammy had one, too... |
Earlier the commander addressed high-school students at a conference entitled "The World Without America".
| Ow! Rolling my eyes like that really hurts! |
"The world without America is a world without oppression, without terror, without invasion, without massacre," he said in a speech that catalogued US "crimes" ranging from the massacre of native Americans to the atom bomb on Hiroshima. A video clip played for the audience showed gruesome pictures of injured children lying in hospital beds in Iraq, which US-led forces invaded last year. Zolqadr said an Iraq-style invasion of Iran was out of the question thanks to Iran's growing military might.
| Zolqadr, you keep working on it and I'll bet you can have the Fourth Largest Army in the World™. You guys and Sammy fought it out to a draw and it only took you eight years. We took Sammy's army apart in a week. No doubt you're much stronger now, so maybe it'd take us two weeks. |
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