Iran says talk of US attack ‘craziness’

AFP
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Iran on Saturday dismissed speculation that it risked being attacked by the United States over its contested nuclear drive, saying that a military strike would be “craziness.”

“Any aggression or military action against Iran is an idiocy whose repercussions would hurt all,” Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.

“I don’t think that such craziness and nonsense will prevail or is doable militarily,” he added.

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Tensions over the nuclear standoff have surged again in the past days after Iran test-fired a broadside of missiles — including one it says brings Israel within range — in war games that provoked international concern.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned that if the United States or its regional ally Israel attacked Iran “then our response to them will be harsh and devastating.”

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