Israel Threatens to Launch Nuclear Attack on Islamic Sites

By Our Staff Writer

THERAN -- A high-ranking Israeli officer threatened that the Zionist
regime would launch nuclear attack on Islamic holy sites in the Middle
East, an Israeli newspaper said Sunday.

In case Israel was attacked by states or groups, the Jewish state would
respond by dropping nuclear bombs on Islamic cities such as Mecca and
Medina in Saudi Arabia and Qom in Iran. The Haaretz newspaper quoted an
unidentified high-ranking officer a s saying.

It is an irony of our time Iraq has been suffering for a decade because it
is accused of having some capabilities of unconventional weapons, while
Israel announces that it possesses nuclear weapons, but there is not any
international action against it.

The officer, a guide in the Israeli military academy, was quoted as saying
that Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear warheads along with their
delivery systems, including long- range ballistic missiles, long-range
bombers and nuclear submarines.

Indeed, while is Iraq under the pressure, Israel is the only entity in the
Middle East to possess a huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction,
including a sizable nuclear arsenal.

It is unfortunate that the United States, Israel's main protector, has
always prevented any serious move to discuss Israel's weapons of mass
destruction. But at the same time it has accused a number of other
countries of trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. It has put
them under pressure on the basis of the very baseless accusations it has
leveled against them.

It is time the Islamic world in the first place and the international
community too took serious action to contain Israel. The Zionist regime is
an occupationist, expansionist entity. It must be contained, else the
entire world will be in danger.

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