Iran: Israel is no match for the Islamic republic's capabili

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Iran: Israel is no match for the Islamic republic's capabilities

Israel is no match for Iran and cannot stop its nuclear program, Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said in an interview to Iranian daily Jam-e Jam Saturday.

"This country [Israel] is completely within the range of the Islamic republic's missiles. Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime - despite all its abilities - cannot confront it," Jafari said, according to an AFP report.
"There is the possibility that by attacking Iranian nuclear sites the enemy wants to delay our nuclear activities, but any interruption would be very short since Iranian scientific ability is different from that of Syria and Iraq."
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Jafari warned countries in the region not to allow their territory to be used for any attack.

"If enemies from outside the region use the soil of regional countries against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the governments of those countries will be responsible and it is our obvious right to act in the same way against their military capabilities and abilities of enemies anywhere," he said.
The Iranian official also said that, if attacked, Iran would use oil as part of the confrontation.
"If there is a confrontation between us and the enemy from outside the region, definitely the scope [of the confrontation] will reach the oil issue," Jafari said.
"Naturally every country under attack by an enemy uses all its capacity and opportunities to confront the enemy. Regarding the main route for exiting energy, Iran will definitely act to impose control on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz," he said. "After this action, the oil price will rise very considerably and this is among the factors deterring the enemies."
Also Saturday, former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the West is "too small to punish a big country like Iran."
According to a report by the official IRNA news agency, Rafsanjani said in a prayers sermon Friday that "we have repeatedly advised that using the literature [of sanctions] in dealing with Iran will not be in favor of the west."
"The West should stop following a wrong approach towards Iran," the chairman of the regime's Assembly of Experts said. "With a great country like Iran, one should deal only with a proper literature, dialogue, logic and reason; otherwise, you would put the region in trouble without gaining anything."
Rafsanjani asserted that Iran seeks nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only, and said it was ready for dialog to win the world's confidence.
European Union nations approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank, Bank Melli. On Tuesday the EU listed 20 Iranian companies and 15 individuals who will be affected by new financial and travel sanctions imposed due to Teheran's nuclear defiance.