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"The first bullet fired by America at Iran will be followed by Iran burning down its vital interests around the globe," the students news agency ISNA quoted Ali Shirazi as saying in a speech to Revolutionary Guards.
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"The Zionist regime is pressuring White House officials to attack
Shirazi, a mid-level cleric, is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative to the Revolutionary Guards.
"The Iranian nation will never accept bullying. The Iranian nation is a nation of believers which believes in jihad and martyrdom. No army in the world can confront it," he added.
MILITARY DRILL
The Web site of the elite Iranian force posted a statement late Monday announcing the military drill, which it said involved "missile squads", but did not say where it was taking place, the AP reported.
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The Revolutionary Guards' commander of artillery and missile units, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi, said 50 brigades of his forces had been equipped with what he called smart cluster munitions. "All our arms, bullets and rockets are on alert so that we would defend the Islamic Republic's territory with the most modern arms we have at our disposal," the moderate Hemayat newspaper quoted him as saying.
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Shirazi's comments intensified a war of words that has raised fears of military confrontation and helped boost world oil prices to record highs in recent weeks.
"We will make the enemy regret threatening Iran," Mohammad Hejazi, deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency on Tuesday.
Tel Aviv is an Israeli coastal metropolis of about 2 million people. It was hit in 1991 by Scud missiles launched by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein during a U.S.-led war with
Unlike other major Israeli cities such as
The strait is the world's most important waterway because it is the conduit for roughly 40 percent of globally traded oil.
Senior officials from six world powers held a conference call on Monday to discuss
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday his country would not stop enriching uranium and rejected as "illegitimate" a demand by major powers that it do so.
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