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ews code:SPH - 02_HJ12.txt News date: Saturday, September 4,
2010
Israel in range of Iran's military: general
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN - The chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces says that all of Israel
is within reach of Iran's military.
"There is not a place in Israel that is not within the range of our modern
(military) apparatus," Major General Hassan Firouzabadi told the Mehr News
Agency on Friday on the sidelines of the International Qods Day demonstration
in Tehran.
Israel has repeatedly threatened to launch attacks on Iranian nuclear sites,
and Iran has complained to the United Nations about the Israeli threats.
Recently, former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton seemed to encourage
Israel to target the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear reactor in southern Iran.
Firouzabadi said Iran hopes Israel will not do something crazy, like attacking
Iranian nuclear facilities, so that Iran will not be forced to take retaliatory
measures, including targeting Israel's Dimona site.
"We hope there will not be a need to target the Zionist regime's nuclear
plant," Firouzabadi stated.
Such a war would not be in any country's interests, he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the general said the Zionists have evicted
Palestinians from their homes and claimed the Palestinian homeland as their own
homeland.
He lamented that human rights and international law have not been observed when
it comes to the oppressed people of Palestine.
But the international community has become more aware of Israel's crimes in
Palestine, he added.
Firouzabadi also dismissed claims by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
Admiral Michael Mullen, who has said the United States has drawn up a plan for
a possible attack on Iran.
Mike Mullen has got a plethora of intelligence analyses at his disposal
pointing to the fact that a military confrontation with Iran is not in the
interests of the United States or the Zionist regime, he said
