Iran warns Israel on National Army Day

Aljazeera – April 18th 2022

By Maziar Motamedi

Tehran, Iran – President Ebrahim Raisi has warned Israel against making even “the smallest movement” against Iran.

The remark came on Monday as the Iranian military displayed homegrown weapons and defence systems marking National Army Day.

A large televised parade was organised on the occasion in the capital, Tehran, which was attended by Raisi and Iranian military officials.

“Our message to the Zionist regime is that if you are after normalising relations with some countries in the region, you must know that not even your smallest movements are hidden from our intelligence, security and armed forces,” Raisi said in reference to Israel.

“And you must know that if you make the smallest movement against the Iranian nation, the destination of our armed forces will be the centre of the Zionist regime,” Raisi added.

Iran fired missiles last month at a site in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. Tehran claimed that the site was being used by Israel, despite denials from the governor of Erbil.

In a message to the United States, Raisi referred to an acknowledgement by US State Department spokesman Ned Price that former President Donald Trump’s so-called “maximum pressure” campaign of harsh sanctions against Iran had failed to achieve its goal of subduing the country.

“This is the faith of those who wish to be hostile to the holy establishment of the Islamic Republic,” Raisi said.

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