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IRAN GUARDS WARN U.S. AGAINST ATTACK |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us;_ylt=Aq.9G0i9I.wKmpdzrQS79gELewgF
Iran Guards warn US against attack By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated
Press Writer
Wed Oct 31, 7:41 PM ET
The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps warned the U.S.
Wednesday against attacking the Islamic Republic, saying if it did,
Washington would be "stuck in a quagmire" worse than Iraq or
Afghanistan.
Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said his forces
were prepared to strike back with a "crushing response" if attacked,
according to comments carried by the semiofficial Fars news agency.
"If enemies prove to be naive enough to invade Iran, they will be
slapped hard," Fars, which is deemed close to the Guards, quoted
Jafari as saying.
"The enemy knows that if it attacks Iran, it will certainly get stuck
in a quagmire deeper than Iraq and Afghanistan and will be defeated,"
he added.
His comments come a day after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shrugged
off new U.S. sanctions imposed last week that ban dealings with
companies connected to the Guards.
Tensions are high between Iran and the U.S. over allegations that
Tehran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and supplying
insurgents in Iraq with deadly weapons that kill American troops. Iran
denies both claims.
Concerns have been mounting in recent months that the United States
might attack to prevent Iran from developing atomic bombs. The U.S.
has said it is trying to resolve its disputes with Iran diplomatically
but also says it has not ruled out any options.
Speaking in Paris on Wednesday, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas
Burns said military action against Iran was "not inevitable, and not
desirable" and suggested that tougher penalties would be a way to
avoid it.
Washington is pushing for a third round of U.N. Security Council
sanctions against Iran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment,
a process that can be used to produce fuel for both nuclear energy and
nuclear weapons. The Security Council has already passed two rounds of
sanctions against Iran, but Russia and China have resisted a third
set.
Burns was in France to urge European countries to slap new sanctions
on Iran. But he also faulted China and Russia, which have economic
interests in Iran, for stalling progress toward the third set of
sanctions. He said China was increasing its trade with Iran, "which of
course is a very negative development."
Underlining the rift between Russia and the U.S., the Russian Foreign
Ministry said Wednesday it disagreed with a U.S. assumption that Iran
is an enemy that must be countered with missile defense sites in
Europe.
The statement from ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin indicated Russia
remains strongly opposed to Washington's missile defense plans,
despite recent U.S. attempts to assuage Russian concerns.
"A serious problem for us is that the U.S. plans are based on dogmatic
logic that Iran is an enemy," Kamynin said. "We don't support plans
for a 'holy alliance' against that country."
Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past has scoffed at U.S.
claims that missile defense sites in Europe are necessary to counter a
prospective threat from Iran, saying the shield would threaten
Russia's nuclear deterrent.
Putin also said there was no proof that Iran was seeking to build
nuclear weapons. He visited Iran earlier this month and reaffirmed
that Russia would complete construction of Iran's first nuclear power
plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog,
began a third, final round of talks in Tehran earlier this week aimed
at resolving remaining questions on centrifuges that are used to
enrich uranium. Those talks will provide a basis for an important
progress report on Iran by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei planned for
mid-November.
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mahammed Khazaee sent a letter to U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, saying the U.S. economic
sanctions against Iran were "a means of exerting pressure on a
sovereign country for purely politically motivated and ill-intended
policies."
He said that "Iran has demonstrated the purely peaceful nature of its
nuclear program through complete transparency and full cooperation
with the IAEA."
He also dismissed allegations that Iran supports terrorism.
Iran "considers the current U.S. warmongering as a threat not just
against Iran but rather the whole world community," he said.
____
Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Paris, Vladimir Isachenkov in
Moscow and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this
report.
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