Cairo, Nov 7: As tensions mounted in the Persian Gulf over accusations that Iran is close to making nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad today warned of any attacks against his country.
Alleging that US and Israel were mustering international backing for a military strike on Iran, Ahmedinejad claimed that Tehran had capabilities to deal such threats.
Iranian President’s remarks came in an interview with Egypt’s state-owned al-Akhbar newspaper and assumed significance in the wake of American media reports quoting UN experts that Tehran is on the threshold of making a nuclear bomb and had mastered the critical steps needed to build a weapon after receiving assistance from a foreign scientist.
“It is Israel that has about 300 nuclear warheads. Iran is only keen to have nuclear capability for peaceful means,” he said, accusing Washington of lumping Iran with Syria, the Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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