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.
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