Iran vows 'crushing response' to Netanyahu's F-35 attack threat

Iran has vowed a “crushing response” to any violation of the country’s sovereignty after Zionist regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to attack Iran with F-35 stealth fighter jets.

"Any enemy which seeks to violate the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, be it at any level, will receive a decisive and crushing response it shall regret," Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami was reported as saying on Friday, Press TV reported.

The Iranian defense minister singled out a recent comment from Netanyahu threatening to attack Iran while speaking at Israel's Nevatim Airbase earlier this week.

Hatami also made reference to another Netanyahu’s threat to "destroy" its enemies in a speech at the the country's nuclear reactor in Dimona last August. The speech was widely interpreted as a threat of nuclear weapons use against Iran.

"Iran, a country without nuclear weapons, is threatened with atomic annihilation by a warmonger standing next to an actual nuclear weapons factory," said Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif responding to the remarks at the time.  

Further addressing what he described as Netanyahu's "upmost shameful" comments, Hatami said that the Israeli provocations were in violation of United Nations Character Article 2 and that Iran reserved the right to respond accordingly to any such attack based on UN Character Article 51.

The Iranian defense minister urged the Iranian Foreign Ministry to follow up what he described as Israel's "out-of-line and dangerous behavior" through international institutions such as the UN and UN Security Council.

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