An unnamed senior officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards warned
Thursday that Iran would strike Israel if it is targeted, no matter who
the attacker is.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai,
the officer said, “Iran has thousands of surface-to-surface missiles,
including improved Zelzal-2 and Al-Fatah 110 missiles, with which it
will set alight all of the oil towns, facilities and infrastructures of
the neighboring countries, if these serve as platforms for attacking
it.”
Any attack upon Iran will lead to a massive missile attack on
Israel, he said, including the nuclear power plant at Dimona, no matter
where the attack on Iran originated from. This is taken as referring to
a possible attack by the United States.
The Iranian officer
boasted that the Patriot missiles that Kuwait intends to buy from the US
will not be able to protect it from the Al-Kaim 1 missile in Iran’s
arsenal. He added that the torpedo boats that the Gulf states received
from the West will be useless against Iran’s small submarines, which
will deploy sea mines against enemy ships.
Ali Fazli, Deputy
Commander of the Iranian Basij militia, warned this week at a Basij
conference in Tehran that his country would destabilize security in the
Persian Gulf if it is attacked. Meanwhile, Iran’s ambassador to Russia
told Hizbullah’s <... >>>
