Ahmadinejad warns of response if Iran attacked (AFP)
"If anyone allows themselves to invade Iranian territory and its legal interests… our armed forces will break their hands before they pull the trigger," Ahmadinejad said at a military promenade speech broadcast live in continuance state television.
"Our nation is seeking friendship and peace… but today it is not in a position to manifest the least pliability towards its bullying enemies," he said in the speech at the 28th anniversary of its eight-year war (1980-1988) with Iraq.
Iran is at odds by the West over its disputed nuclear notice, what one. the United States and its allies fear could be used to make nuclear weapons. Iran insists it only wants to bear nuclear energy.
The United States has never ruled out a soldiers haul down against the Islamic republic although Washington insists it prefers diplomacy. The same is true of US ally Israel, which Iran does not recognise.
Israel, the region's individual if undeclared nuclear armed state, considers Iran its the gross strategic threat for of its nuclear programme.
