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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28 – Iran threatened on
Saturday to strike its enemies with its medium-range missiles if its
suspected nuclear weapons facilities came under attack.
“If we come under military attack, we will respond with our very effective
missile defence”, the commandant of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said on state
television.
“The world knows that the Islamic Republic has ballistic missiles in its
defence arsenal”.
Iran currently has
a large arsenal of Shahab-3 missiles that can strike over 2,000 kilometres
away from their launch sites, easily reaching arch-nemesis Israel and United States troops in the
region.
Safavi said that Iran was able to
produce medium-range missiles indigenously without foreign assistance.
He accused “the occupiers of Iraq”, in
particular British troops in the south, of being behind Tuesday’s twin
bombings in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz which left nine people
dead. He warned British and U.S intelligence apparatuses to avoid meddling
in Iran’s internal
affairs.
During the inauguration of the Revolutionary Guards new air chief, Safavi highlighted Tehran’s ideological influence over
neighbouring countries and said that the United States and Israel had
reached a “political dead-end” in the Middle East, the state-run ISNA news
agency reported.
“The political paths of the countries of the region such as Iraq and Palestine show that America has reached a
political dead-end. The results of Iraq’s
parliamentary elections, the victory of Hamas in
the [Palestinian elections], and the role of Hezbollah in Lebanon prove this
claim to be true”.
“God willing, the 21st century will see the defeat of the U.S. and the
Zionists, and the victory of freedom-seeking nations of the world”.
The IRGC chief warned that Iran was seeing
through “critical days” and “fate-determining years”.
He described the purpose of Iran’s 1979 Islamic
revolution as the “Salvation of Muslims” from the hands of the “oppressive U.S. and Israel”.
“The final goal of the revolution is to create global Islamic rule and a
regime of law to be led by the Imam Mahdi”.
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