Official says that Iran would destroy Israel if attacked

Official says that Iran would destroy Israel if attacked

Tehran (Reuters) - attributed to a high Iranian official as saying on Saturday that Iran would destroy Israel and 32 American military base in the Middle East if exposed to attack because of its nuclear program crisis.

And plunging the Islamic Republic and Israel's propaganda war escalating in recent weeks raised speculation of military confrontation and assisted in the rise in oil prices to record levels in world markets.

And raised an Iranian missile tests last week, alarmed by the tension in the capital markets.

The news agency quoted the semi-official Fars Mojtaba Noor as saying in a sermon "The United States is fully aware that with less action against Iran would be Israel and 32 American military base outside the range missiles and destroyed."

With a light is the deputy representative of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Revolutionary Guard.

Israel and conducted exercises in the last month raised speculation of possible air attack on a nuclear sites in Iran.

Israel and promising belief that it's only region that possesses a nuclear arsenal to deter a turning Iran into a nuclear armed force.

Washington says it wants to end the dispute through diplomacy but did not rule out resorting to military action if diplomacy failed.

He said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has strong relations with the Iranian leadership on Saturday that he wants a political solution to the dispute. He added that he finds to his knowledge that Iran has no intention of trying to obtain nuclear weapons.

His statements came in a joint press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy after talks between them in Paris.

Iran and promising fourth-largest oil exporter in the world and Israel responded by targeting U.S. interests and maritime traffic in the Gulf if attacked and threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, which passes by 40 percent of global oil trade.

Iran said Wednesday it had conducted tests of nine rocket launching long and medium term, including a rocket says that he can reach Israel and U.S. bases.

Some installations located in the U.S. on the other side of the Gulf more than 200 kilometers from the Iranian coast. The United States air and naval bases in the nearby Arab states including Qatar and Bahrain.

In Jerusalem abstained spokesman Arye Mekel, Israeli Foreign Ministry comment on the statements of a light.

Iran says that its nuclear activities aimed only at generating electricity. Western countries fear that Israel and Iran is seeking to manufacture nuclear bombs.

Analysts say that any American or Israeli attack will be limited to air strikes would be launched extensive participation by American ground troops are currently engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They add that Iran could respond unconventional methods such as sending a small aircraft to attack ships or use allies in the region to strike at American or Israeli interests.

Earlier on Saturday warned the Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hussein important the United States and Israel, saying that attacking Iran would be "madness and folly."

The United States and five other major states on Iran's economic gains and others if the detained more sensitive nuclear activities, which Iran rejects.

It is expected to meet Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Said Galilean with an official foreign policy of the European Union Javier Solana in Geneva on July 19 in July to hold talks on a long-standing dispute.

He said important that Iran was ready to hold talks "on fair terms" but would not accept what it considers to abandon their nuclear weapons.

She stressed the United Nations and Western countries in the sanctions on the Islamic Republic because of its plans with nuclear analysts say that these sanctions away foreign investors.

Tehran says that the proceeds of oil sales will enable it to implement large projects themselves, they also will find other companies for investment, especially from Asia starved of energy.

He said Oil Minister Gholam Hussein Nodhiri that Tehran will move forward "with renewed vigour" to develop major gas field in the Gulf after days of the announcement of the French company Total that it would not invest in the atheist ten of the draft South pars at the present time due to political risks.

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