Iran says 150,000 missiles pointed at Israel

November 29, 2011

By JPOST.COM STAFF

11/27/2011 23:39

" How many missiles have they prepared themselves for? " Iranian defense minister

asks.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said that Iran has up to

150,000 missiles pointed at Israel, according to the semi-official Iranian FARS

news agency.

According to the report, Vahidi questioned threats against the Islamic Republic

from the Jewish State, asking " How many missiles have they prepared themselves

for? 10,000? 20,000? 50,000? 100,000, 150,000 or more? "

The Iranian defense minister also warned against an offensive by the United

States, saying it would meet a hard defensive line were it to attack Iran.

" The US and its allies should know that Iran is so powerful that its battling

will teach the US how to fight and what war and warrior mean, " Vahidi told a

crowd of 50,000 volunteer soldiers in Bushehr, a city where one of the country's

nuclear power plants is located.

Iran claims the country's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but an

incriminating International Atomic Energy Agency report said that Tehran has

continued to covertly develop nuclear-weapons technology.

Since the release of that report, Western nations have called for international

pressure on the regime in Tehran to halt their nuclear program.

The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada cast stringent sanctions on

Iran's energy and financial sectors, a move which pushed Iran to expel the

British ambassador.

France and the Netherlands have called for similar action against the Islamic

Republic.

On Saturday, Tehran made a rare threat against Turkey, saying it could target

the recently installed NATO anti-missile shield in any future conflict.

" We are ready to attack NATO's missile shield in Turkey if we face a threat and

then we will follow other aims, " the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Amir

Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division, as saying.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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