General Ahmad Haghtalab, head of the nuclear security division within the Revolutionary Guard Corps, threatened to launch "powerful missiles" at Israeli nuclear facilities. But he gave no information on the means, date, and targets of a possible operation.
Israel accuses Iran - which denies it - of wanting to acquire an atomic bomb and says it is seeking by all means to prevent it. For its part, Israel is considered a nuclear power, but it has never confirmed or denied its capacity to use the atom for military purposes. Another senior Iranian officer said Thursday that his country had used only "old weapons and minimal power" for its attack last weekend. He specified that "the nuclear centers of the Zionist enemy's nuclear centers" were identified and that Tehran had the "necessary information on all targets." "Hands are on the trigger to fire powerful missiles for the total destruction of determined targets," he warned, according to the official agency IrNA.