Iran ‘blow up heart of Israel’ if attacked
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 11:10 am
TEHRAN – Iran ‘blow up heart of Israel’ if attacked, Iran issued another warning on Friday against any attack on the Islamic republic, while claiming its talks with world powers over its controversial nuclear programme were “a success and a victory”.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s deputy representative to the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mojtaba Zolnour, said Tehran will “blow up the heart” of Israel if attacked by the Jewish state or the US.
“Even if one American or Zionist missile hits our land, before the dust is settled, Iranian missiles will blow up the heart of Israel,” state news agency IRNA quoted Zolnour as saying.
Iranian officials have repeatedly said Tehran would carry out severe reprisals if Israel or the US attacked the country.
The US and its regional ally Israel have never ruled out a military option to stop Tehran’s nuclear drive, which the West says is aimed at making nuclear weapons while Iran says it is solely for peaceful ends.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution, Tehran withdrew its recognition of Israel.
The Jewish state considers the Islamic republic to be its arch-enemy after repeated statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a “myth” and that Israel is doomed to be “wiped off the map”.
Another Khamenei appointee and one of Tehran’s Friday prayer leaders, Ahmad Khatami, also issued a stern warning to Iran’s enemies, without naming any.
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