China View (Link) (April 9, 2009)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday downplayed the Israeli threat to launch a military attack on Iran, the local Press TV website reported. "The Iranian nation considers Israel as just a nonentity and the regime is too weak to threaten us," Ahmadinejad told a group of people in Iran's central city of Isfahan. "Today nobody dares to threaten the Iranian nation," he stressed.
Israel successfully intercepted a target simulant of an Iranian missile in a test of its Arrow anti-missile system recently. During the test, the target missile, simulating an Iranian Shehab, was launched by Israel's air forces over the Mediterranean Sea, before it was intercepted.
Earlier in March, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Israeli nuclear sites are within the reach of its missiles.
The United States and its allies, including Israel, have accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program. However, Iran insists that its nuclear plan is only for peaceful purposes, and continues its uranium enrichment activity despite pressure from the West and relevant resolutions and sanctions of the United Nations.
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