Report: Iran to launch counterattack if Israel strikes

Roee Nahmias
Y Net News
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Lebanon’s al-Nahar reported Tuesday that Iranian Parliament
Speaker Ali Larijani warned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak against an
Israeli attack on his country.

Larijani told Mubarak that if Israel dared to attack its nuclear
facilities, Iran would launch a counterattack on Israel and all US
bases in the country, as well as countries of the Gulf region.

The two leaders met nine days ago. al-Nahar’s report cites
“diplomatic sources in Beirut” as saying that Larijani had
asked Mubarak to convey his message to a number of Gulf States the
latter was visiting.

According to the report Mubarak did indeed convey the message to
leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, who fear
Iranian aggression within their boundaries.

Larijani stressed that Iran intended to retaliate only against
American bases used against it, the report says, and therefore urged
the states to ask the US not to use bases situated on their territory
to attack the Islamic Republic.

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