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DEBKAfile Special Report
Hardly a day has gone by this month without some Iranian official making an aggressive statement against the United States and Israel. The most unbridled are reserved for the Jewish state. Thursday, August 19, defense minister Vice Admiral Ali Shamkhani threatened pre-emptive strikes to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities. “We will not sit on our hands waiting for what others will do to us,” he said, adding that some Iranian generals believe the doctrine of pre-emption is “not limited to Americans.”
The warning, leveled against Washington, brought to mind Israel’s 1981 strike against Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor. To hit America, Iran does not need to cover the distance to the United States; American forces are close by, as is America’s ally, Israel. .............
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