Iran’s reaction to attack would be ‘very decisive’: official

AFP
Monday, July 6, 2009

A senior Iranian official, reacting to comments by US Vice President Joe Biden, on Monday said his country would respond “in a very full-scale and very decisive way” if it were attacked by Israel.

The Iranian official was speaking in Japan hours after US television broadcast an interview in which Biden said the United States would not stand in Israel’s way in its dealings with Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

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Biden told ABC television’s ‘This Week’ that “we cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they’re existentially threatened.”

In Tokyo, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said: “I think that America and Israel are fully aware what kind of result such a wrong judgement will entail.

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