TEHRAN - Israel will attack missiles 150.000 if it launched any military action against Iran, said the defense minister, General Ahmad Vahidi.
Minister of the Israeli military said that volunteers should be punished for what they did to the Muslims in Palestine, Iran's Independent News Service reported yesterday.
Speaking to 50,000 military volunteers at Bushehr, the minister involved said that Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan.
"If the United States launched an attack and invade Iran, we will show them how to fight, adding that Israel must be punished for what was done to the Palestinians and Lebanon," he said.
Vahidi did not specify whether the missile would be launched from Iran or other location.
On Saturday, a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said that it would target missile defense shield of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacked the Islamic Republic.
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of Iran's aerospace defense semi-official news agency quoted Mehr warned that preparations made by Tehran is part of a strategy to face threats from the United States and Israel.
Iranian defense minister also warned of counter-attack by the United States, but the action has to get Iran's powerful defense.
"America and its allies should know that Iran is too strong and trying to teach Americans how to fight and what it means to fight and be a hero," said Vahidi to a group of volunteers at Bushehr, a city to place its nuclear power plants.
Iran insists that the country's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes but the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that Tehran continues to develop nuclear weapons technology.
Since the report aired, the Western countries urged the international community to impose pressure on the Tehran regime to suspend its nuclear program involved.
U.S., Britain and Canada to impose restrictions on financial and energy sectors of Iran, Tehran's drive to force the British ambassador. France and the Netherlands also urged similar action against the Islamic republic. - Agency
