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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
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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.
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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.

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
  83.   Clicky 65...Pentagon has 3 carrier groups keeping those lanes 18:28  |  The Equalizer 15/07/07
  84.   To Raden (number 5) 18:39  |  J 15/07/07
  85.   Think Again.. 18:47  |  Infidel Too 15/07/07
  86.   Israel`s Cuban Missile Crisis 18:59  |  Steve Schlesinger 15/07/07
  87.   600targets 19:01  |  Shmuelshachor 15/07/07
  88.   Joel #75 19:03  |  Bill Foonman 15/07/07
  89.   Reply to 69,Can you Read???? 19:06  |  Abe 15/07/07
  90.   #42 Jane/ #52 Vickery - Only 2 carrier groups, later only 1 19:11  |  Pablo B 15/07/07
  91.   PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE NOW!!!!! 19:11  |  Ben Uziel 15/07/07
  92.   Mad Sam in SA (Saudia?) 19:12  |  Hannah 15/07/07
  93.   GZLIVES#44, 46-50. VERY GOOD AND USEFUL POSTS! INDEED! 19:15  |  MOSHEH 15/07/07
  94.   Is Iran an islamic country? 19:30  |  infidel 15/07/07
  95.   JANE 42 19:31  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 15/07/07
  96.   I didnt know Isreal was big enough for 600 targets 19:32  |  RA 15/07/07
  97.   Iranians Check It Out 19:33  |  Yosemite 15/07/07
  98.   Medieval mullahs must never get nukes 19:35  |  Jonathan S 15/07/07
  99.   #7 MAD Only works when both countries have a will to live 19:35  |  RA 15/07/07
  100.   Time is almost run out! 19:36  |  pahoo katawah 15/07/07
  101.   Bill #88 19:36  |  JOEL WELTMAN 15/07/07
  102.   Hanna #92 19:38  |  JOEL WELTMAN 15/07/07
  103.   cult of personality 19:40  |  sarah 15/07/07
  104.   CLICKFOOL#65. JUST A SECOND, WONDER WHY AMERICANS ARE IN IRAK? 19:42  |  MOSHEH 15/07/07
  105.   Hannahm you are still evading my question 19:42  |  Yonatan 15/07/07
  106.   66 JOEL 19:43  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 15/07/07
  107.   To 59T 19:49  |  Wandering Jew 15/07/07
  108.   raden - don`t be a fool, they will use the bomb 19:53  |  cb 15/07/07
  109.   Israel can do it all alone 19:56  |  Jonathan S 15/07/07
  110.   #83 Equalizer - Insurance companies will curtail Gulf traffic 19:56  |  Pablo B 15/07/07
  111.   Blah, Blah and Blah....who cares about Iran and there threats 20:03  |  vn 15/07/07
  112.   Israel and Arabs UNITE against Iran 20:07  |  Tosefa 15/07/07
  113.   Israel has the right to protect itself against Iran 20:17  |  Sonia 15/07/07
  114.   600 targets 20:23  |  Daniel Lingner 15/07/07
  115.   to 107 20:27  |  Sara 15/07/07
  116.   101 JOEL WELTMAN 20:31  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 15/07/07
  117.   For The Equalizer # 83 20:34  |  Clickfool 15/07/07
  118.   Israel had better have nukes 20:41  |  Ron 15/07/07
  119.   Israel and its supporters are in denial,israel is the most hated 20:44  |  lakshmi 15/07/07
  120.   For Mosheh #104 20:45  |  Clickfool 15/07/07
  121.   Are you mad, Jonathan S? # 107 20:56  |  Clickfool 15/07/07
  122.   Jon #106 and #116 20:58  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  123.   Clickfool #117 21:07  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  124.   lakshmi #119 21:11  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  125.   For Ron # 118 21:11  |  Clickfool 15/07/07
  126.   iranian strikes 21:13  |  safta 15/07/07
  127.   NEWS FLASH 21:15  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  128.   Life Now Not So Sweet ForThe Average Israeli 21:19  |  chet 15/07/07
  129.   Iran swallow isreal in matter on hours if not say minutes 21:19  |  Xerox 15/07/07
  130.   Jonathan S. - bought and sold to the US oil companies 21:19  |  Pablo B 15/07/07
  131.   Funny Logic 21:23  |  Ahmed 15/07/07
  132.   The conventional capability seems to be enough 21:24  |  Fritz 15/07/07
  133.   Lakshmi & clicky 21:25  |  X` 15/07/07
  134.   Iran swallow isreal in matter on hours if not say minutes 21:26  |  Xerex 15/07/07
  135.   ABE and "FAIRNESS" 21:28  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  136.   I`d Rather have 600 Iranian Missles than 1 Iranian Nuke 21:29  |  Michael 15/07/07
  137.   122 JOEL- WRONG on Isreali Aircraft 21:33  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 15/07/07
  138.   Abe or Ibrahim as I think it really is 21:41  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  139.   Nuke Major Iranian Cities if Israel is Attacked 21:42  |  J 15/07/07
  140.   This is Actually Quite Encouraging 21:53  |  Solon 15/07/07
  141.   mehmet Israel is hated for being a Jewish sanctuary 21:54  |  infidel 15/07/07
  142.   IDF 21:55  |  MLK 15/07/07
  143.   119 lakshmi 21:56  |  alan 15/07/07
  144.   clickfool 21:56  |  ge 15/07/07
  145.   Click # 121: Perhaps *I* am `Mad` 22:01  |  Solon 15/07/07
  146.   23Jason,Ph.D. your doctorate has not made you a wise man only a 22:32  |  lakshmi 15/07/07
  147.   Jon #137 23:20  |  Joel Weltman 15/07/07
  148.   # 146 23:48  |  Jason, Ph.D 15/07/07
  149.   Joel Weltman #147 00:39  |  Brod 16/07/07
  150.   #149 Brod 02:43  |  Joel Weltman 16/07/07
  151.   Joel Weltman #150 05:11  |  Brod 16/07/07
  152.   Have People Forgotten Russia 06:30  |  Jon 16/07/07
  153.   151 Brod 06:31  |  Joel Weltman 16/07/07
  154.   Justice 07:41  |  Lewis Beyman 16/07/07
  155.   Israeli suicide 11:43  |  spyguy 16/07/07
  156.   Joel Weltman #153 15:41  |  Brod 16/07/07
  157.   Nuking Iran = Nuking enitre mideast 16:13  |  Robert 16/07/07
  158.   Brod #156 17:29  |  Joel Weltman 16/07/07
  159.   Well there is a solution to this - post reply 17:51  |  Ken 16/07/07
  160.   There should be no war 17:55  |  Albert 16/07/07
  161.   Response to #12 17:56  |  Ken 16/07/07
  162.   Reply #56 17:57  |  david 16/07/07
  163.   Huh 17:57  |  Ken 16/07/07
  164.   Dude... Snap out of it. 18:02  |  Ken 16/07/07
  165.   Purim 18:29  |  Isabella 16/07/07
  166.   Iran 18:32  |  Isabella 16/07/07
  167.   to #30-when iran prepares--- 19:04  |  Observer 16/07/07
  168.   to #37-Tim from Toronto 19:10  |  Observer 16/07/07
  169.   to#56-Israel must strike first-- 19:20  |  Observer 16/07/07
  170.   to#58 Sunny fron Marseilles 19:31  |  Observer 16/07/07
  171.   #65-Clickfool on rocket range 19:39  |  Observer 16/07/07
  172.   to#121-Clickfool 20:06  |  Observer 16/07/07
  173.   to #153--Joel 20:25  |  Observer 16/07/07
  174.   to #162-David 20:30  |  Observer 16/07/07
  175.   Israel and Iaran 21:12  |  Confused 16/07/07
  176.   israel will not hesitate or care about the rest of the world" 21:24  |  Confused 16/07/07
  177.   Stop Bragging 21:34  |  Uncle Sam 16/07/07
  178.   Islamist-Jihadist crap #177 22:54  |  Brod 16/07/07
  179.   RE: HOW MANY JETS!!! 23:17  |  Nazan 16/07/07
  180.   #`s 44, 46. 47, 48, 49; Quotes from Iran. 23:24  |  Nazman 16/07/07
  181.   #164Dude... Snap out of it. 23:30  |  Confused 16/07/07
  182.   The Wrath Of G-d 00:07  |  Alan Cabal 17/07/07
  183.   Rabid Posters 00:16  |  Frank 17/07/07
  184.   Iran only has ONE oil refinery! 00:55  |  Joe B 17/07/07
  185.   Frank #183 04:17  |  Joel Weltman 17/07/07
  186.   Iran not will attack Israel the opposite is true 05:58  |  Carlao 17/07/07
  187.   Iran will not attack.......... 06:00  |  Carlao 17/07/07
  188.   Iran will not attack unless......... 06:04  |  Carlao 17/07/07
  189.   Iran will not attack unless......... 06:08  |  Carlao 17/07/07
  190.   Iran 06:52  |  Mannstein 17/07/07
  191.   Observer #173 07:29  |  Joel Weltman 17/07/07
  192.   Isabella #166 07:39  |  joel Weltman 17/07/07
  193.   to Joel, # 173 19:08  |  Observer 17/07/07
  194.   The truth about Iran 21:24  |  Jon 17/07/07
  195.   Enough is enough 07:26  |  Gene 18/07/07
  196.   600 and counting? 09:14  |  PH 19/07/07
  197.   Isreal 16:21  |  Randy 25/07/07
  198.   Isreal 16:23  |  Randy 25/07/07
  199.   Isreal 16:27  |  Randy 25/07/07
  200.   Dear Ahmadinejad 15:02  |  GK 17/09/07
  201.   Look at this: 16:50  |  Igor 25/09/07
  202.   No choice but detente 11:19  |  vazir 27/11/07
  203.   Give Arabs What They Want And..... 11:31  |  Garnagooz 27/11/07
  204.   HOW MANY JETS. 19:10  |  DANNY. 27/11/07
  205.   TO JANE NO 42. 19:22  |  DANNY. 27/11/07
  206.   Deluded 21:38  |  Raad 27/11/07
  207.   600 Missiles! 22:20  |  The Teacher 27/11/07
  208.   G.K. 22:43  |  The Teacher 27/11/07
  209.   Iran and Israel 20:32  |  Paul Zucker 29/05/08
  210.   Iran ready to nuke Isreal 19:56  |  Chris Van Halen 02/07/08
  211.   GOD ( the creator ) religion 00:05  |  Death 17/02/09
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