Iran warns of nuke retaliation

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5519652

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would both retaliate and accelerate its drive to master nuclear technology if the United
States or Israel attacked its atomic facilities, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator has warned.

Hassan Rohani, secretary-general of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, also told Reuters on Sunday there
was nothing the West could offer Tehran that would persuade it to scrap a nuclear programme which Washington fears
may be used to make bombs.

Asked about a possible attack by the United States or Israel, which have both said a nuclear-armed Iran would be
unacceptable, Rohani said: "If such an attack (against Iran's atomic facilities) takes place then of course we will retaliate
and we will definitely accelerate our activities to complete our (nuclear) fuel cycle."

Speaking in a rare interview, Rohani said Iran's ability to produce its own nuclear parts had made it "invulnerable" to
attack since it could simply rebuild whatever was destroyed.

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[FloridaPat]

1. I wonder if Busco would be stupid enough to allow Israel to attack

Iran while most of our troops are sitting ducks in Iraq.

Another possibility - Iran nukes all our troops. Finally wins war against Iraq by destroying entire country. Bush notices no troops to take over rest of ME, so finally gets congress to authorize more nuclear bombs and tests that he has been trying to do for 4 years now. Now we are totally nuclear and go around bombing everyone. However, we can't bomb too much in the ME because then we couldn't get the oil and that would be the end of the world - as we know it.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1216903