{"id":772,"date":"2014-02-12T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/iran-to-target-us-israel-if-attacked\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:18:00","slug":"iran-to-target-us-israel-if-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Iran To Target Us, Israel if Attacked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/350362_Iran-Firouzabadi.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/350362_Iran-Firouzabadi.jpg\" height=\"111\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><strong>Iran\u2019s Armed Forces chief of staff has dismissed US officials\u2019 threats of military action against Iran as \u201cpolitical bluff\u201d, saying the Islamic Republic is ready for the \u201cdecisive\u201d battle against the US and Israel.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are ready for the decisive war with the US and the Zionist regime [of Israel],\u201d said Major General Hassan Firouzabadi on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">Iran has been planning for such a battle for years by carrying out various drills, he said, stressing that Iran\u2019s Armed Forces are prepared to fend off any military aggression.<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px; text-align: justify;\"><p>The top commander warned that in case of aggression against Iran, all the US and Israeli interests will be targeted, \u201cWe warn that if our forces come under attack from any territory, we will hit all the positions which belong to that [territory],\u201d Firouzabadi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">He said Iran harbors no hostility towards any of the countries in the region, but \u201cif we are attacked from US bases in the region, we will target that place.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">The senior commander made the remarks in reaction to US officials\u2019 threats in recent weeks that all options, including the military one, are on the table against Iran.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also said on Tuesday that the rhetoric of threat against the Iranian nation is \u201cworthless and childish.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">\u201cOn behalf of the nation of Iran, I declare with a clear voice that threatening the nation of Iran is worthless and childish since our nation has, over the past 35 years, stood up to various threats from the enemy and been victorious,\u201d the president said in an address to a massive gathering of people celebrating the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran on Tuesday<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Courtesty: Press tv<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Armed Forces chief of staff has dismissed US officials\u2019 threats of military action against Iran as \u201cpolitical bluff\u201d, saying the Islamic Republic is ready for the \u201cdecisive\u201d battle against the US and Israel. \u201cWe are ready for the decisive war with the US and the Zionist regime [of Israel],\u201d said Major General Hassan Firouzabadi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}