Iran will ‘break hands’ of invaders, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 10:24 pm
TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Sunday that the nation’s military will “break the hands” of invaders if attacked, as the war of words over its nuclear ambitions intensified.
“If anyone allows themselves to invade Iranian territory and its legal interests… our armed forces will break their hands before they pull the trigger,” Ahmedinejad told a military parade.
“Our nation is seeking friendship and peace… but today it is not in a position to show the least flexibility towards its bullying enemies,” he said in the speech marking the 28th anniversary of Iran’s 1980-1988 war with Iraq.
In Israel, former army chief Moshe Yaalon told military radio that Iran threatens the West in the same way Adolf Hitler once did and that if economic and political sanctions fail conflict will be “inevitable.”
“Today, we in the West are facing the same situation, the lack of decisiveness towards a threat that is no less severe than that which Hitler posed in 1939,” he said.
“We can still stop Iran with political and economic measures but if we do not, then a military confrontation is inevitable,” Yaalon said.
The broadsides came on the eve of a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board on Monday where the UN nuclear watchdog will discuss the stalemate in its probe into Iran’s nuclear drive.
The watchdog has been investigating the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme for five years, but has so far been unable to determine whether the programme is entirely peaceful as Iran claims.
At the moment, the agency and Iran are — in the words of a senior official — “gridlocked” over Tehran’s refusal to provide proof that it was not involved in studies to make a nuclear warhead, as a wide range of intelligence suggests.
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