A senior Iranian commander says Israel is unlikely to strike the country but warns that Tel Aviv will receive a ‘decisive’ response in case of an attack on Tehran.
Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force, General Kioumars Heidari, sent a ‘serious’ warning to Israel on Sunday over any potential military strike.
The commander said “the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are fully prepared to repel any aggression with a decisive response” in case of any Israeli military attack on the country.
The warning comes a day after the Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari said that Israel could not escape Iranian missiles in case of an attack.
“Iranian missiles have the capacity to target anywhere in Israel including its nuclear sites if the Zionist regime commits such stupidity,” Jafari had said.
“We are not responsible for the likely stupidity of the Zionist enemy,” he added.
Israel has long threatened to put an end to Iran’s nuclear program, which it describes as a ‘threat’ to its existence, by resorting to military action.
The West, spearheaded by the US and Israel, accuses Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
Tehran, however, rejects the allegation, arguing that the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), to which it is a signatory, grants its members the right to conduct peaceful nuclear programs.
