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September 3, 2010
No. 30049

Mehr Report: 'All Israel Is Within Range Of Our Firepower; We Hope That We Will Not Be Obliged to Strike Dimona'

The Iranian news agency Mehr reported today, in an article headlined "All Israel is Within Range Of Our Firepower; We Hope That We Will Not Be Obliged to Strike Dimona," that a Mehr reporter asked Iranian Armed Forces Joint Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi, on the sidelines of the Qods Day rallies in Tehran today, "If the Zionists do something stupid, how will Iran react?"

Firouzabadi told the reporter: "We will confront them in different ways, and we will punish them."

He added, "I hope that there will be no need to target the nuclear power plant." 

Source: Mehr, Iran, September 3, 2010

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