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Report: Iran has 600 targets for missile strike in Israel if attacked
By Yoav Stern, Barak Ravid and Yossi Melman Haaretz Correspondents and The Associated Press

The Qatari newspaper Al Watan on Sunday quoted diplomatic sources in Damascus as saying that Iran has marked 600 targets in Israel for missile strikes in case it is attacked.

The report said the targets are within reach of Iranian missiles and would be completely destroyed if Israel should attack Iran or participate in an American attack on the country.

Iran's warning refers to talk in Israel and the United States of a possible military strike to prevent the Islamic republic from attaining nuclear capability.
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Various channels delivered the Iranian message, which also warns against an attack on Syria.

The sources, which were described as both "international" and Arab, told Al Watan they do not expect a war to break out between Israel and Syria this summer.

Also Sunday, Iran's foreign ministry said Tehran will remain steady in pursuing its disputed nuclear program, and hopes the United Nations Security Council won't sanction it for this.

"Nuclear activities of Iran continue in a defined and clear framework," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said at his weekly news conference.

He dismissed earlier reports that Iran had slowed down the pace of its uranium enrichment program.

The Security Council has imposed two sets of sanctions on Iran since December of last year, over the country's refusal to halt enrichment. A third resolution is being pushed by the United States and its allies at the Council, and Hosseini acknowledged Sunday that Iran was bracing for this.

"The third resolution would have its impact on Iran," the spokesman said.

Hosseini said Tehran would try to avoid the new sanctions by pursuing a policy that steers its nuclear program away from Security Council scrutiny.

This statement appeared to refer to an agreement reached last week between Iran and the UN's nuclear watchdog for a new negotiations framework.

Iran contends its nuclear program is purely peaceful, but the United States and its allies suspect enriched uranium could be used to make atomic bombs.

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that Tehran had agreed to answer questions on past nuclear experiments and would allow UN nuclear inspectors to visit facilities they had previously been barred from.

Any Iranian decision to cooperate with the IAEA could weaken the push for new UN sanctions - even if Iran continues to defy the council's main demand that it freeze uranium enrichment
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  1.   Nuke `Em Before They Nuke Us. 13:18  |  Terry 15/07/07
  2.   ONLY 600!!?? 13:19  |  Robert 15/07/07
  3.   How do the mad mullahs know if their missiles will get through? 13:34  |  PETER SM 15/07/07
  4.   what can the world face with a nuclear Iran? 13:37  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/07/07
  5.   Iran Never threatened to Nuke Israel 14:01  |  raden 15/07/07
  6.   when 14:15  |  mo 15/07/07
  7.   Well there is a solution to this 14:16  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/07/07
  8.   A bit worried 14:18  |  Ky 15/07/07
  9.   Iran Threat 14:24  |  Brod 15/07/07
  10.   No. 7 You fool. Does a suicide bomber care about MAD? 14:31  |  Dan 15/07/07
  11.   Iran with a plan 14:37  |  Chaim Gorenstein 15/07/07
  12.   #9 Brod 14:37  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/07/07
  13.   Response To #5 14:41  |  Oleg 15/07/07
  14.   golani 14:41  |  idf 15/07/07
  15.   RE: Iran with a plan 14:42  |  Oleg 15/07/07
  16.   HOW MANY JETS!!! 14:43  |  NACHUM OF SDEROT 15/07/07
  17.   Thanks to tell us 14:43  |  Gemma 15/07/07
  18.   The Linthwaite Candidate 14:44  |  Ky 15/07/07
  19.   Iranian starts to panick- If attacked, their missiles go first.. 14:52  |  Nofear 15/07/07
  20.   Iran 14:58  |  Hunter 15/07/07
  21.   D`ont forget the miracle of POURIM. !! 14:59  |  Edmont 15/07/07
  22.   maybe they hit us...but.. 15:03  |  Arie 15/07/07
  23.   Israel`s Cuban Missile Crisis 15:07  |  Jason, Ph.D. 15/07/07
  24.   go for it Israel, attack Iran 15:11  |  wendy 15/07/07
  25.   To # 5 raden 15:12  |  Watcher 15/07/07
  26.   Jason, Ph.D. 15:17  |  # 20, Hunter 15/07/07
  27.   #5 raden - you have short memory 15:18  |  Shlomo 15/07/07
  28.   A bit worried #8 15:27  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  29.   THE REAL INFORMATION WOULD BE: HOW MANY US TARGETS IF US ATTACK! 15:30  |  MOSHEH 15/07/07
  30.   When Iran prepares to attack the Jewish state of Israel and calls 15:31  |  David Israeli 15/07/07
  31.   Jason 15:35  |  Richadr 15/07/07
  32.   Reply to No 28 15:37  |  Abe 15/07/07
  33.   Wendy #24 15:43  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  34.   #18 Ky 15:46  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/07/07
  35.   I HOPE THIS TALK OF IRAN ISRAEL WILL END 15:49  |  MARCO 15/07/07
  36.   Abe # 32 Are you talkin to moi? 15:56  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  37.   Ah..Shlomo #27..you "don`t know what is" 16:01  |  Tim 15/07/07
  38.   # 34 16:11  |  Jason, Ph.D. 15/07/07
  39.   How drole! 16:13  |  Mark Lincoln 15/07/07
  40.   Hunter "Legality" ??? 16:17  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  41.   Marco #35 16:17  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  42.   How Many Aircraft Carriers are Sitting There? 16:24  |  Jane 15/07/07
  43.   #38 Jason 16:29  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  44.   Quotes from Tehran 16:30  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  45.   Russians 16:31  |  Eli 15/07/07
  46.   Quotes from Tehran II 16:31  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  47.   Quotes from Tehran III 16:32  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  48.   Quotes from Tehran IV 16:33  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  49.   Quotes from Tehran V 16:34  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  50.   Quotes from Tehran VI 16:36  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  51.   #5 Raden - No nuclear threat against Israel? 17:00  |  Jon 15/07/07
  52.   Jane: 3 not 5 17:02  |  David James Vickery 15/07/07
  53.   wendy#24 17:05  |  wh 15/07/07
  54.   MAD would not work 17:09  |  Fernando 15/07/07
  55.   One Less Country Represented In The UN 17:10  |  Bill Foonman 15/07/07
  56.   ALL THE MORE REASON ISREAL MUST STRIKE FIRST 17:11  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 15/07/07
  57.   Ah Tim 37 - only a blind man cannot see 17:13  |  Shlomo 15/07/07
  58.   Please destroy iran NOW!!!! 17:15  |  sunny 15/07/07
  59.   David Israeli Iran and Jews 17:22  |  moll 15/07/07
  60.   Iran`s rockets cannot reach US 17:26  |  Joe 15/07/07
  61.   MAD 17:35  |  SAM 15/07/07
  62.   #7 Iran could care less about deterrence 17:44  |  Shepherd 15/07/07
  63.   How do you like them apples, Israel? 17:44  |  Clickfool 15/07/07
  64.   Reply to No 36, What is Your Point 17:46  |  Abe 15/07/07
  65.   On the reach of Iran`s rockets # 60 17:47  |  Clickfool 15/07/07
  66.   Jon #56 and Joe #60 17:49  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  67.   CHRIS LINTHWAITE #7 17:51  |  GAONI 15/07/07
  68.   Iran --- The Pieceful Mahdi Wishing Nation 17:55  |  Larry 15/07/07
  69.   Abe #36 17:56  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  70.   rockets and oil, #65 17:57  |  Joe 15/07/07
  71.   #7 chris 17:58  |  alan 15/07/07
  72.   joel 66 18:02  |  Joe 15/07/07
  73.   58 sunny its not that easy 18:02  |  alan 15/07/07
  74.   that is a gross exaggeration 18:03  |  mehmet 15/07/07
  75.   Bill #55 18:06  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  76.   yah, so. thats bully talk which better not scare us. 18:07  |  ralph 15/07/07
  77.   syria goes first gov`t also then iran nuclear and gov`t centers 18:10  |  ralph 15/07/07
  78.   Israel is hated sooo much 18:11  |  mehmet 15/07/07
  79.   Soon irans regime will never get nuclear weapons 18:20  |  Johnny 15/07/07
  80.   Joe #72 18:22  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  81.   Mehmet #78 18:27  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  82.   "Israel is hated sooo much" 18:27  |  Sam 15/07/07
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