Iran warns Israel: Don't attack us
Speaker of the Iranian parliament tells London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat, ‘Our goal is to establish trust with world and express our true intentions to utilize our nuclear energy to achieve peace; we in Iran will never yield to the arrogance of our enemies’
Iranian parliament speaker Ghulam Ali Haddad-Adel warned Israel against "folly that would lead it to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities," London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat reported.
"If Israel realizes its threats and strikes our nuclear facilities, as happened in Iraq in 1981, we'll teach her a lesson she will never forget," the official warned following his recent meeting with Syrian president Bashar Assad in Damascus.
Haddad-Adel added, “Our goal is to establish trust with the world and express our true intentions to utilize our nuclear energy to achieve peace. In the past two years more than 1,200 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors have visited Iran, but they did not find any proof indicating that we are planning to direct our nuclear plan toward producing military weapons.”
'Atomic energy for peaceful purposes'
According to Haddad-Adel, should the Iranian nuclear program be referred to the U.N. Security Council, in accordance with the recent IAEA decision, “we will regard this as certain pressure that is being applied on us. We in Iran will never yield to the arrogance of our enemies.”
Meanwhile, Iranian sources told al-Hayat that during his recent meeting with the Iranian parliament speaker Assad said the U.S.’s “plot” to isolate Syria and Iran has failed as “no one will be able to come between Tehran and Damascus.”
As to Iran’s nuclear program, an Iranian source said, “Assad supported Iran’s right to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes and denounced the U.S.’s attempt to prevent Iran from upholding this right when it permits Israel to posses weapons of mass destruction.”
