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205140
Sun, 09/04/2011 - 15:31
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Commander Downplays Enemies' Military Threats against Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) rejected enemies' ability to pose a serious military threat to Iran, and said Iranians consider the warmongering remarks uttered by certain western officials as "hollow threats".
"Today West's military threats are hollow remarks in the eye of the Iranian nation today because the US and the West are not powerful enough to wage a military attack against Iran," IRGC Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani told FNA on Sunday.
His remarks came after French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Wednesday that western countries may launch a preemptive attack against Iran due to the country's progress in building long-range missiles and its advancements in nuclear technology.
Javani further mentioned that the use of the language of force is a worn-out tactic used by the West against Iran, and said Sarkozy's remarks are not surprising to us since he made the same mistake that the US officials have repeatedly made during the last few years.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Iran has warned it could close the strategic Strait of Hormuz if it became the target of a military attack over its nuclear program.
Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the strategic Persian Gulf waterway, is a major oil shipping route.
Meantime, a recent study by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a prestigious American think tank, has found that a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities "is unlikely" to delay the country's program.
A recent study by a fellow at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Caitlin Talmadge, warned that Iran could use mines as well as missiles to block the strait, and that "it could take many weeks, even months, to restore the full flow of commerce, and more time still for the oil markets to be convinced that stability had returned."
"Today West's military threats are hollow remarks in the eye of the Iranian nation today because the US and the West are not powerful enough to wage a military attack against Iran," IRGC Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani told FNA on Sunday.
His remarks came after French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Wednesday that western countries may launch a preemptive attack against Iran due to the country's progress in building long-range missiles and its advancements in nuclear technology.
Javani further mentioned that the use of the language of force is a worn-out tactic used by the West against Iran, and said Sarkozy's remarks are not surprising to us since he made the same mistake that the US officials have repeatedly made during the last few years.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Iran has warned it could close the strategic Strait of Hormuz if it became the target of a military attack over its nuclear program.
Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the strategic Persian Gulf waterway, is a major oil shipping route.
Meantime, a recent study by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a prestigious American think tank, has found that a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities "is unlikely" to delay the country's program.
A recent study by a fellow at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Caitlin Talmadge, warned that Iran could use mines as well as missiles to block the strait, and that "it could take many weeks, even months, to restore the full flow of commerce, and more time still for the oil markets to be convinced that stability had returned."
