The United States would not be safe from retaliation if Iran is attacked by Washington, the Iran newspaper quoted a senior Revolutionary Guards commander on Tuesday as saying.
“In the face of any attack, we will have a crushing response. In that case, we will not only act in the boundaries of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, no place in America will be safe from our attacks,” Massoud Jazayeri was quoted as saying by the daily.
Iran would not strike any country first, he said.
Tehran is locked in a dispute with the West over its nuclear program.
Israel and the United States have threatened military action against Iran unless it abandons activities which the West suspects are intended to develop nuclear weapons.
Further talks between Iran and world powers are expected to take place this month in an attempt to reach a compromise.
The most recent talks failed in January 2011 after Iran refused to suspend its sensitive uranium enrichment work, as demanded by several U.N. resolutions.
Tehran says its nuclear work is peaceful and it has the right to develop its program under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“America, the Zionists and reactionary Arabs should pay attention that we will seriously confront them wherever the Islamic Republic’s interests are threatened,” Jazayeri said, according to Iran daily.
Iranian officials have warned that the Islamic Republic’s response to any military strike would be painful and has said it could close the oil shipping thoroughfare the Strait of Hormuz.
(Source: Reuters)
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So what Iran is saying that if Israel attacks Iran, Iran with attack the United States. This is something like a rat announcing that if attacked by a cat, it will then attack lion. At best it will be ignored, at worse, it means that if Israel launches an attack on Iran, the United States may assume it now has to launch a preemptive strike against Iran, even the US had opposed the Israeli attack.
Perhaps this “logic” is why many Iranians, including ones who are anti-Israel and anti-American, are questioning the competence and sanity of Iran’s political leadership.
#1 “if Iran is attacked by Washington”
This new threat is not a problem because Mr. Obama will say the exact words he has been saying about Iranian aggression for three and a half years, “We have to first talk to them and give them some time.”
akuperma is correct and that is a great moshol.