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Defense News - Iran
 

Thursday , 9 December 2010, 10:58 AM

 
Iran Iranian armed forces always prepared to respond to military attacks.
 
 
TEHRAN (FNA) - A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official played down the West and the Zionist regime of Israel's capability to harm Iran, and stressed that Tehran is always prepared to repel enemy attacks and aggressions under any kind of condition.
     
A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official played down the West and the Zionist regime of Israel's capability to harm Iran, and stressed that Tehran is always prepared to repel enemy attacks and aggressions under any kind of condition.
Iranian armed forces with armoured vehicle BTR-60 during a military parade in Tehran
     

Speaking to Cuban daily Granma, the official organ of the central committee of Cuba's communist party, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for American Affairs Behrouz Kamalvandi pointed to the continued threats posed against Iran by the US and Israel, and stated, "We know that if they had (US and Israel) assumed us weak, they would have already attacked us."

"With the intelligence they have about Iran and given their knowledge about us, they would, no way, commit the mistake of attacking our country," Kamalvandi stressed.

"However" the Iranian official said "we are preparing ourselves to show a proportionate response if they make such a mistake".

The official also underscored that Iran is working on plans to be prepared for such scenarios under any conditions.

Israel and its close ally the United States accuse Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, while they have never presented any corroborative document to substantiate their allegations. Both Washington and Tel Aviv possess advanced weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads.

Iran vehemently denies the charges, insisting 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.

Iran has warned that it would target Israel and its worldwide interests in case it comes under attack by the Tel Aviv.

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".

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.

In a Sep. 11, 2008 report, the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy also said that in the two decades since the Iran-Iraq War, the Islamic Republic has excelled in naval capabilities and is able to wage unique asymmetric warfare against larger naval forces.
According to the report, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) has been transformed into a highly motivated, well-equipped, and well-financed force and is effectively in control of the world's oil lifeline, the Strait of Hormuz.

The study says that if Washington takes military action against the Islamic Republic, the scale of Iran's response would likely be proportional to the scale of the damage inflicted on Iranian assets.