(Xinhua) -- Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Saturday that his troops would counter any attack against the country, Iran's Press TV satellite channel reported.
Speaking to reporters on an IRGC command ship in the Gulf fleet headquarters, Jafari said Saturday that Iran's armed forces are prepared to detect and repel any potential attack against the country's nuclear facilities.
After overseeing a military exercise aimed at detecting and destroying mock targets in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, Jafari asserted that Iran's army is able to instantly respond to any act of aggression. The maneuver, which was a rehearsal of different passive defense methods, included torpedo and missile speedboat drills, Press TV quoted unidentified sources as saying.
| Speedboat drills, yeah, that'll stop the Israelis ... |
Jafari's remarks came after a U.S. report that Israel's recent large-scale military exercise was apparently a rehearsal for a potential bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who visited Washington in early June, said that 'the Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means,' indicating that military resort can not be excluded. His remarks about Iran's nuclear threat are believed to be the strongest one the Israeli leader has made on the issue. |