Iran Again Warns Israel Against Attack
/Insisting that Tehran's nuclear program is
peaceful, Iran's foreign minister reiterated Tuesday that Iran would
retaliate to any Israeli strike against its nuclear facilities. "If
they would do that, we would react," Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharrazi said during a visit to New Zealand. "We have our defense
capability and that certainly keeps others from exercising such a
threat. They know what is our capability and how ... we react."
Kharrazi's comments echo similar statements made last week by Iran,
which warned Israel it would attack the Dimona nuclear facility if its
own facilities were targeted. Israel has never confirmed nor denied
having nuclear weapons, but it is widely believed to be a nuclear
power. Its reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert is said to be the
source of plutonium for its alleged nuclear warheads. Iran says its
nuclear program is strictly for generating electricity. But Israel and
the United States strongly suspect Iran -- which President Bush ( news
-web sites ) has called part of an "axis of evil" with North Korea and
prewar Iraq -- is secretly building nuclear weapons. [more 
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