A comparison Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander on Monday threatened Israel with drop if it attacks Iran, state media reported.
The comments by Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, emissary conduct of a chosen Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, followed an Israeli attack on Iranian targets in Syria final week – a latest in a array of assaults targeting Tehran’s participation there in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
“We announce that if Israel takes any movement to salary a fight opposite us, it will really lead to a possess rejecting and a pardon of assigned [Palestinian] territories,” Salami said, quoted by state television.
Iranian officials have formerly pronounced Tehran, that does not commend Israel, would respond quickly to any Israeli attack.
Israel corroborated U.S. President Donald Trump’s pierce to behind out of a 2015 general understanding on Iran’s nuclear program and welcomed Washington’s reimposition of sanctions on a country.
Israel sees Iran’s chief and ballistic missile programs as a hazard to a existence. Iran says a chief work is for pacific functions only.