http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/January/middleeast_January274.xml§ion=middleeast25 January 2007
TEHERAN - Iran’s top national security official, Ali Larijani, assessed as “very weak” on Thursday the possibility of a pre-emptive US strike on his country’s nuclear facilities.
“The possibility of this is very weak and it’s more a matter of psychological warfare,” the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Larijani as saying.
“However, Iran is always ready to confront threats.”
Earlier this month, US President George W. Bush ordered a second US aircraft carrier battle group to the Gulf and announced the deployment of Patriot anti-missile missiles to the region.
Washington was the most outspoken champion on the Security Council of its adoption of the first ever UN sanctions against Iran over its refusal to heed calls for a suspension of its uranium enrichment programme.