Iran promises no mercy against aggressor
Iranian Armed forces
Any decision to attack Iran would be an 'irreversible error' unforgivable until the fall of the enemy, says a senior Iranian commander.
"Mistake can be rectified but the launch of an invasion of Iran would be an irreversible error that we will respond to until their collapse," said top Iranian Army commander, Major General Ataollah Salehi.
"Being a bully with powerful equipment and many offshoots does not signify superiority. The greatest weakness of the enemy is its large size and powerful appearance," he added in his interview with Iran’s official military journal.
His remarks come as Israel is intensifying war preparations and lobbying world powers for anti-Iran sanctions as well as the receipt of aggressive weapons.
According to a late September report by The Guardian, Tel Aviv had long been dead serious about launching air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities but failed to receive the green light from President George W. Bush in May.
Pentagon officials revealed in mid June, however, that Israeli warplanes had taken to the skies in the first week of June in what was later cited to be a ’dress rehearsal' for an attack on Iran.
The Israeli Air Force employed over a hundred F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, tactical bombers in the maneuver held 900 miles west of Israel off the southern Mediterranean island of Crete, roughly covering the distance from Israeli airfields to an Iranian uranium enrichment facility in Natanz.
The US then revealed that it would equip Israel with advanced weapons, including a powerful missile radar system.
In September, the US Defense Department also agreed to equip Tel Aviv with the Guided Bomb Unit-39 (GBU-39), a form of 'bunker-buster' bomb, designed to penetrate fortified constructions deep underground - such as Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Tel Aviv and its staunch ally, the US, have also vocally threatened to attack Iran, claiming that Tehran’s nuclear program poses an existential threat to Israel.
While the UN nuclear watchdog has found no evidence in support of the nuclear allegations against Tehran, Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory Iran continues to cooperate with world powers to clarify the nature of its nuclear program.
"Enemy threats considering their military power are serious, but we also possess military power," declared the Iranian commander regarding recent threats.
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