TEL AVIV, Jan 7 — Under a clear blue sky in Tel Aviv, Nisan Katz vowed yesterday he was “not afraid” of a threat by an Iranian official to turn the Israeli city “to dust.” The warning followed a war of words between Washington and Tehran, after the US assassinated top Iranian military...
Residents of Israel's Tel Aviv say they aren't afraid of the Iranian threat to turn the city to 'dust.' — File pic
“If America takes any measure after our military response, we will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust,” said Mohsen Rezai, who heads Iran's Expediency Council, a top state body.“There shouldn't be any confrontation or war between Israel and Iran, we don't have a common border,” he told AFP.Rezai's threat against Israel, a key ally of Washington, comes after President Donald Trump said the US would hit dozens of Iranian sites if Tehran attacked American personnel or assets.
They include an “escalation of events up to a confrontation with the US, in which Israel could also be involved.” Attacking Israeli cities would represent “a great provocation which can cause a very large-scale military conflict with Israel. I don't think this is what they would like now.”
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