Iran reacts to Israeli rhetoric: Crushing response awaits all threats

Defense Minister reacts to the Israeli regime’s renewed aggressive rhetoric against the Islamic Republic, saying the country will serve a crushing response to whatever threat.

“Iran is a powerful, great, resolute, and capable country. It has shown [in the past] that it would respond strongly and intensely to any threat if it were faced with one,” Brigadier General Amir Hatami told reporters in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Thursday.

“Therefore, one should not attach any significance to Israel’s threats,” he added.

The Israeli regime finds Iran to be its strongest opponent, given the Islamic Republic’s official position of outright opposition to the regime’s occupation and aggression and Tehran’s singular support for the regional peoples and groups that stand up to Tel Aviv's atrocities.

Earlier this month, Tzachi Hanegbi, the Israeli minister that oversees the affairs of the regime’s illegal settlements, said that the regime could attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if the US returned to the deal.

Hatami, however, said the Israeli regime was in “a seriously fragile” situation, and was issuing such statements “out of desperation and fear,” adding that “no one attaches any credit or pays any attention” to such discourse.

‘Israel’s talk bigger than its might’

The regime’s actual capabilities do not measure up to its pompous rhetoric, Hatami, meanwhile, said.

“The capability that is owned by this regime that is situated in a very small occupied territory and has no historical precedence, does not go beyond a certain limit and measure,” the official said, noting that Tel Aviv’s potential only allows it to carry out some “vexatious” activities.

Therefore, the occupying regime, itself, knows that whatever apparent threat it has levelled against the Islamic Republic does not match its size and might, the official concluded.

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