In comments broadcast today on state television, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (no relation to former President Mohammad Khatami) said Iran has the capacity to hit Tel Aviv with its medium-range missiles.
Khatami has a seat in the 86-member Assembly of Experts, the cleric-dominated body that supervises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He said both Israel and the U.S. should know that "playing with Islam is like stepping on the lion's tail."
"If [the leaders of the United States and Israel] want to have the smallest thought of any kind of offense against Islamic Iran, they should know that the 70-kilometer range missiles of Lebanon's Hizballah turned Israel into a country of ghosts," Khatami said. "They should be frightened of the day when our missiles with a 2,000-kilometer range will come down in the heart of Tel Aviv."
Western arms experts believe Iran's Shahab-3 missile has a maximum range of 2,000 kilometers, enough to strike Tel Aviv or U.S. military bases in the Gulf.
Iranian military commanders have in the past threatened to deploy their Shabab-3 missiles against any aggressor.
(Reuters, AFP)
Khatami has a seat in the 86-member Assembly of Experts, the cleric-dominated body that supervises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He said both Israel and the U.S. should know that "playing with Islam is like stepping on the lion's tail."
"If [the leaders of the United States and Israel] want to have the smallest thought of any kind of offense against Islamic Iran, they should know that the 70-kilometer range missiles of Lebanon's Hizballah turned Israel into a country of ghosts," Khatami said. "They should be frightened of the day when our missiles with a 2,000-kilometer range will come down in the heart of Tel Aviv."
Western arms experts believe Iran's Shahab-3 missile has a maximum range of 2,000 kilometers, enough to strike Tel Aviv or U.S. military bases in the Gulf.
Iranian military commanders have in the past threatened to deploy their Shabab-3 missiles against any aggressor.
(Reuters, AFP)
