Iran warns West against attack, displays missiles

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran told Western powers on Saturday they would regret any attack over Tehran’s nuclear activities and it rolled out a display of missiles and other military hardware to back the warning.

“Our message to the enemies is: Do not do it,” the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said, speaking to reporters less than a week after France’s foreign minister publicly raised the prospect of war.


“They will regret it, as they are regretting it in Iraq,” the commander added, speaking on the sidelines of an annual military parade just outside the capital.

The Islamic Republic put on show medium-range missiles it has said could reach Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf at the parade marking the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

Three Saegheh jet fighters, a new generation of domestically produced, flew overhead.

Reuters