Iran Press/Iran news: "Any enemy which seeks to violate the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, be it at any level, will receive a decisive and crushing response - one that it will regret," Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Friday.
The Iranian defense minister singled out a recent comment from Netanyahu threatening to attack Iran while speaking at Israel's Nevatim airbase earlier this week, Press TV reported.
Hatami also made a reference to another threat by Netanyahu to 'destroy Israel's enemies' in a speech near the nuclear reactor in Dimona last August which was widely interpreted as a threat of nuclear weapons use against Iran.
"Iran, a country without nuclear weapons, is threatened with atomic annihilation by a warmonger standing next to an actual nuclear weapons factory," said Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at the time.
Further addressing what he described as Netanyahu's "utterly shameful" comments, Hatami said the Israeli provocations were in violation of United Nations Character Article 2 and that Iran reserved the right to respond accordingly to any such attack based on UN Character Article 51.
The defense minister urged the Iranian Foreign Ministry to follow up what he described as Israel's "out-of-line and dangerous behavior" through international institutions such as the UN and the Security Council.
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